incentivize
verb
in·cen·tiv·ize
in-ˈsen-tə-ˌvīz 
incentivized; incentivizing
: to provide with an incentive
would incentivize employees with stock options
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Another issue is incentivizing owners of dairy farms to report when their animals seem sick.
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Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 May 2024
Local governments are incentivized to obscure how their economies are really doing, says Dan Wang, chief economist at Hang Seng Bank China.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 2 May 2024
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Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 May 2024
Local governments are incentivized to obscure how their economies are really doing, says Dan Wang, chief economist at Hang Seng Bank China.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 2 May 2024
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“Incentivize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incentivize. Accessed 8 May. 2024.
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