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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And that’s because the Biden-era incentives were, in large part, about China, too, with provisions to incentivize American battery factories and penalties for companies that didn’t build enough in the US.
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Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
The goal of the new program is to incentivize creators to make more original and compelling content and keep users coming amid competition from younger-skewing platforms and concerns about a stalling albeit still very large user base.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
There were a lot of renewable-energy developers that had built out wind farms in this region because they were incentivized by tax credits, where they were actually getting paid to produce renewable energy and sell it independent of the real price.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Mark Cuban says employees deserve more stock Billionaire Mark Cuban wrote in a post on X that companies should be better incentivized to give shares to their employees as stock gains multiply.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
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Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
The goal of the new program is to incentivize creators to make more original and compelling content and keep users coming amid competition from younger-skewing platforms and concerns about a stalling albeit still very large user base.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
There were a lot of renewable-energy developers that had built out wind farms in this region because they were incentivized by tax credits, where they were actually getting paid to produce renewable energy and sell it independent of the real price.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Mark Cuban says employees deserve more stock Billionaire Mark Cuban wrote in a post on X that companies should be better incentivized to give shares to their employees as stock gains multiply.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Incentivize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incentivize. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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