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incentive English

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incentive

An incentive is something that makes you feel like you want to do something. Companies should give their workers financial incentives to take the bus to work. The government is cutting taxes to provide incentives for investment. Doctors have a lot of incentive to see many patients and little incentive to spend much time with each one.

incentive

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

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Simple sentences

Access to the domestic market should act on the whole island as a powerful incentive for economic development.

Movie subtitles

Naturally, when I have an incentive- dwimming to you, darling.
And incentive trips.
It will take the incentive out of dueling.
Men who are faced with death almost every day of their lives must have an incentive.
They would have an incentive to move them elsewhere.
We must give him some sort of incentive.
She'll help you find an incentive to work with the androids, not exploit them.
WELL, WHAT IS MY INCENTIVE TO GIVE YOU THE POUND?
WELL, THE INCENTIVE IS TO MAKE THE ORPHANS HAPPY.
Maybe you haven't found the right incentive for living yet.
But not enough of an incentive.
So do I. I've put a wager on you and Apollo as an added incentive.
But. it will give him a little incentive.
If it's any incentive for you to pull through, I think you got a chance with her.
We must give them some incentive to work.
You see, the champions, the legends, they serve as a purpose, a challenge, an incentive.
Which could be just the incentive he needs to grant me permission to go.
I figure that you could learn with the right incentive, like. keeping your job.
This year the incentive award goes to colleague Klaus Bernhard.
I think he's losing because he doesn't care. There's no incentive.
Our people need incentive.
Incentive, colonel.
Well, that certainly is an incentive, Mr. Laszlo.
What incentive are you prepared to offer me over our old deal with Anglo-Qamadan?
Hardly an incentive to disturb a successful partnership.
We don't have the incentive of being among those to escape.
That should be an incentive for you to go right ahead.
With you he had a double incentive because of Louise, heaven knows what else.
He'll give you real incentive.
But it will give him a little incentive.
I got married so I could stop dating, so still dating is not a big incentive since the last thing you wanna do is date your wife, who should love you.
Now, what possible incentive could anyone offer me to allow that to happen?
Now isn't that incentive enough?
Now what possible incentive could anyone offer me to allow that?
My job was to give Orta an incentive.
What kind of incentive?
That'd be an incentive, wouldn't it, love?

News and current affairs

Because the poor have so little money to spend, drug companies, under current arrangements, have little incentive to do research on the diseases that afflict them.
Certainly, it mollifies China's leaders, offering them a stronger incentive to continue to work within the existing international monetary regime.
It would give developing nations a strong incentive to accept mandatory quotas, because if they can keep their per capita emissions low, they will have excess emissions rights to sell to the industrialized nations.
The West has a big incentive to be generous to Afghanistan's rural poor.
If this is more than lip service, and if she really carries out a serious reform of the German welfare state's incentive structure, the result could be higher employment and structural economic growth.
Americans need to get their economic house in order before China loses its incentive to support the dollar.
With deposit insurance, clients who no longer risk losing their money have no incentive to monitor their bank, while banks, with no one watching, have incentives to invest in excessively risky projects.
This creates a powerful incentive for depositors and investors to monitor their bank's performance.
Implementing liquidity provision policies like those advocated by Bagehot would prevent bank panics without the incentive for undue risk-taking associated with deposit insurance.
But the EU can overcome national impediments by developing exemplary universities and research centers that would be properly European, serving as an incentive to quality and reform at the national level.
But if owners of oil reserves think that prices will fall in the long run, they gain an incentive to explore for oil and expand production now in order to sell as much oil as possible before the fall.
Countries had little incentive to make peace with their neighbors as long as they enjoyed the financial support of the US or the USSR.
The first objection is surely no longer true of the advanced economies, while the second is irrelevant, given that the goal is not to strengthen the incentive to work, but to enable people to live without work.
Given this history, Iran has a strong incentive to retain at least a nuclear-breakout option (which would mean completing all but the final steps to weaponization).
The price of plank cedar in Lahore is incentive enough to corrupt, or kill, any Green Corps men brave enough to stand in their way.
Second, there is a strong political incentive to deprive women of their rights.
But the incentive to ignore these issues is gone, independent of what other countries choose to do and whatever global agreements may be reached.
But it makes an enormous practical difference that an incumbent ruler can do a lot more future damage to his people than an ex-ruler, and therefore should be given no incentive to retaliate.
Many service firms in Asia are owned by the public sector, so governments have less incentive to deregulate services.
But creditors don't have an incentive to place tough limits on banks.
These debentures should be designed to create a strong incentive for bank managers and shareholders to issue equity rather than suffer conversion.
But even with these measures, social benefits may artificially increase the incentive to migrate.

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