incentive

Meaning of incentive

noun
  1. Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
    I have no incentive to do housework right now.
  2. A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
    Management offered the sales team a $500 incentive for each car sold.
adjective
  1. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
  2. Serving to kindle or set on fire.

Information about incentive

Hyphenation of incentive

in-cen-tive

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • incentive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

incentive synonyms

Meaning inducement:

inducement, motivator

Meaning bonus:

bonus

incentive antonyms

Meaning :

disincentive

Translation of incentive

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