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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The researchers suggest inventors should be incentivized to prioritize the best ideas, regardless of origin, since building new technologies requires significant time, money, and risk.
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Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Outside of the fact that why is Nike incentivizing this kind of work?
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
There aren’t enough gas turbines, or enough interest from utilities in building new gas plants, to meet Texas’s skyrocketing energy needs or deliver the power the TEF was meant to incentivize.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 24 Apr. 2025
That trend may accelerate for 2025 as new rules in the European Union incentivize other automakers like Stellantis to pay Tesla to count its electric vehicles as part of their own pool for emissions.
—ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2025
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Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Outside of the fact that why is Nike incentivizing this kind of work?
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
There aren’t enough gas turbines, or enough interest from utilities in building new gas plants, to meet Texas’s skyrocketing energy needs or deliver the power the TEF was meant to incentivize.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 24 Apr. 2025
That trend may accelerate for 2025 as new rules in the European Union incentivize other automakers like Stellantis to pay Tesla to count its electric vehicles as part of their own pool for emissions.
—ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2025
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“Incentivize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incentivize. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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