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incentive

in sen tiv

  • n  a positive motivational influence
  • n  an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

  • Paying students for doing well in school is controversial but a new study shows cash incentives work.
  • Is a $100,000-a-year salary a big enough incentive for an executive to do his best work?This question (and it was seriously asked) last week stirred up a first-class family.
  • Paying students for doing well in school is controversial but a new study shows cash incentives work.
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  • President Bush in New York Times
    If Congressional leaders leave for the Fourth of July recess without taking action, they will need to explain why $4-a-gallon gasoline is not enough incentive for them to act,Mr. Bush said Wednesday in the White House Rose Garden. "And...
  • Eric Cantor in USA Today
    The plan seems to offer little incentive for private investors to participate unless the subsidy is made so rich that it comes at the expense of the taxpayer,House Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia said.
  • Julia Gillard in AFP
    She said the aim was to "wreck the people-smuggling trade by removing the incentive for boats to leave their port of origin in the first place; to remove both the profitability of the trade and the danger of the voyage".

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