incent

Verb

1. To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).
   • We need to incent people to innovate more.
   • We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load. - 2007 February 24, Damon Darlin, “At Intuit, What Comes After Taxes?”, in New York Times:
   • HUD programs to incent owners to maintain affordable housing units have preserved over 3,500 projects with about 300,000 units. - 2009 July 15, Shelley Moore Capito, Legislative Options for Preserving Federally- and...
2. To provide an incentive for (something).
   • We need to incent more innovation.
   • DUNCAN: The more we can reward excellence, the more we can incent excellence, the more we can get our best teachers to work in those hard to staff schools - 2009 January 13, Arne Duncan, “Duncan Lays Out Positions in...