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• incentive*/ — [ɪnˈsentɪv] noun [C/U] something that makes you want to do something or to work harder, because you know that you will benefit by doing this The high rate of pay is a great incentive.[/ex] Many farmers have little incentive to work for the… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• incentive — in‧cen‧tive [ɪnˈsentɪv] noun [countable] something which is used to encourage people to do something, especially to make them work harder, produce more or spend more money: • tax incentives for first time home buyers • The company proposed a… …   Financial and business terms

• Incentive — For the video game developer and publisher, see Incentive Software. For the independent record label, see Incentive Records. In economics and sociology, an incentive is any factor (financial or non financial) that enables or motivates a… …   Wikipedia

• incentive — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, generous, good, great, huge, massive (esp. BrE) ▪ powerful, strong ▪ adequate …   Collocations dictionary

• incentive — 01. The teacher gave the children little stars as an [incentive] to clean up their desks at the end of each day. 02. I m already at the top of my pay scale at work, so I don t really have any economic [incentive] to work harder. 03. The players… …   Grammatical examples in English

• Great Boston Fire of 1872 — The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was Boston s largest urban fire and still one of the most costly fire related property losses in American history. The conflagration began at 7:20 p.m. on November 9, 1872, in the basement of a commercial warehouse… …   Wikipedia

• Great Depression — the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s. * * * or Depression of 1929 Longest and most severe …   Universalium

• Great Chinese Famine — History of the People s Republic of China     1949–1976, The Mao Era         …   Wikipedia

• great — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} adj. 1 large in amount, degree, size, etc. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ADVERB ▪ very ▪ The play was a very great success …   Collocations dictionary

• Great divergence — The Great Divergence is the period beginning in the 18th century in which the West (namely Britain, followed closely by the rest of Western Europe) clearly emerged as the most powerful region of the world, eclipsing the formerly dominant great… …   Wikipedia

• Perverse incentive — A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable effect, that is against the interest of the incentive makers. Perverse incentives by definition produce negative unintended consequences. It is a term first coined by… …   Wikipedia