How to Use incentivize in a Sentence

incentivize

verb
Definition of incentivizenext
  • This incentivized the capitalist class to hire new workers on a large scale.
    — Jacob Swartz, Orange County Register, 14 May 2024
  • The measure is an attempt to incentivize homeowners to rent properties out rather than leaving them vacant.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2024
  • That’s aimed at incentivizing new rental property construction to increase supply of apartments and homes for rent.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 16 July 2024
  • This kind of contract structure naturally incentivized managers to reach milestones.
    — Amber Dasilva / Jalopnik, Quartz, 6 May 2024
  • The goal is to stabilize prices by incentivizing more saving and less spending, which slows economic activity.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 23 May 2024
  • Instead, high prices eventually nudged customers to scale back spending, which in turn incentivized companies to offer better deals.
    — Aden Barton, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • The result was unprecedented labor shortages, which forced employers to beef up pay and benefits and incentivized workers to job hop.
    — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
  • Fairweather says the federal government can put carrots and sticks in place to incentivize local governments to change their zoning laws.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • Moreover, new small builders need to be incentivized, and Wall Street must be prevented from acquiring residential properties.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • That’s helped incentivize many consumers to make the switch.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Sometimes people need to be incentivized to do things in the right ways.
    — Becky Lucas, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The birds weren’t trained or incentivized in any way to produce the swinging style of movement.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • This could be reasonably close, but with the playoffs in reach the Bills are incentivized.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • That's the whole point of these tax credits -- to incentivize bringing back that full supply chain in the United States.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • To train the crows to use the stones, the researchers started by making a cheese puff trail to the tube, incentivizing the crow’s curiosity.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Thanks to baseball’s plan to incentivize mediocrity, there are 13 teams in the National League in the hunt for six playoff spots.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
  • Officials in those districts say the move in meant to incentivize teachers to remain on the job and recruit new ones.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • This incentivized them to make promises that the company couldn’t keep.
    — Alana Semuels, TIME, 18 June 2024
  • Some insurance plans have begun paying doctors for responding to portal messages, which incentivizes doctors to communicate with patients.
    — Carly Weeks, TIME, 6 May 2024
  • The trust fund could help cities incentivize affordable rental housing, said Williams.
    — al, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Google’s move to incentivize app developers to put in the extra work is overdue.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 26 July 2023
  • The city should also look for ways to use tax credits to incentivize hotel owners to open rooms for shelter, Constant said.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The stamps featured James Brown’s face on the front and incentivized supporting black businesses.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 June 2024
  • Dubón is a true spark plug atop the lineup, with speed and athleticism that is helped by baseball's rule changes incentivizing base stealing and contact at the plate.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Many are incentivized by the prospect of permanent residence.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The lack of structures set in place to support and incentivize the development of Black employees will continue to halt change.
    — Shelcy Joseph, Essence, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But there’s reason to doubt whether the FDIC, as a government-run entity, is best positioned and incentivized to solve this problem.
    — Matheus Riolfi, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • That, in turn, incentivizes the companies to slow their production.
    — Justin Worland, TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
  • California has come up with a new way to fight methamphetamine addiction: incentivizing users to stay sober with gift cards.
    — Jamie Joseph, Fox News, 25 July 2023
  • Our goal is to incentivize everyone to think and act with an enterprise perspective.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2024

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