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語源

From incentive +‎ -ize.

発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈsɛntɪvaɪz/

動詞

incentivize (third-person singular simple present incentivizes, present participle incentivizing, simple past and past participle incentivized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives for; to encourage.

   The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.

   • 2024 October 30, Ethan Lang, “Toronto council to consider rental development incentives”, in CBC.ca‎:

     City staff are recommending ways Toronto can incentivize the construction of 20,000 purpose-built rental homes.

2. (transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives to.

   They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.

使用する際の注意点

• Used relatively more than incent to refer to the use of systems of incentives.

反意語

• disincentivize

派生語

• incentivizer

関連する語

• incent

Further reading

• “incentivize”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries