(a.) Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
(a.) Serving to kindle or set on fire.
(n.) That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(2) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(3) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(4) "The victims are very clear that those outstanding matters of detail – which are not on the charter but on the legislation surrounding the incentives mainly – is just as important to them than any detail in the charter."
(5) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
(6) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
(7) Removing that economic incentive is the most powerful thing we can do to reduce levels of immigration back to what British people want to see,” he said.
(8) These incentives provided employees with evidence of tangible support for continuing education.
(9) Including these incentive or responsibility payments in fixed pay is also more honest in accounting terms.
(10) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
(11) The authors provide an important description of a successful alternative foster parent recruitment effort, including the provision of fiscal incentives for foster parent recruiters.
(12) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
(13) As an incentive, there should be mass availability of all types of contraceptive devices free of charge to users or at least highly subsidized.
(14) This can only be accomplished by providing time, facilities, incentives, and encouragement to do what originally attracted the teacher into a career in science and teaching in the first place.
(15) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
(16) As a consumer-oriented regulatory tool, it is valuable though limited since it can only react to proposals and can neither initiate nor provide positive incentives for new programs.
(17) This measure aims to be an incentive for the industry to provide more healthy options.
(18) This study analyzed the cost-effectiveness and distribution of costs by program stage of three smoking cessation programs: a smoking cessation class; an incentive-based quit smoking contest; and a self-help quit smoking kit.
(19) However, few new commonhold flats are being built, as developers do not have the incentive of profiting from the freehold.
(20) Youth unemployment has fallen by 59,000 since the scheme's launch, but the low take-up of the wage incentive scheme means it can claim little credit.
Incentivise
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Our last chance to restrain the housing bill is with the Lords | Bob Kerslake Read more The report goes on to argue that private housebuilders, as currently incentivised, are unable to deliver this target and calls for local authorities and housing associations to be freed up to build substantially more homes for rent and sale.
(2) It’s about incentivising a new balance between risk management and relational support by enabling social workers to do what they do at their best: to see and build on people’s strengths, head off problems before they become crises, show empathy, and offer creative and flexible support, focused on the long term.
(3) Meanwhile some residents feel that Norma 26 , a policy meant to incentivise the construction of much-needed low-income housing, is actually driving gentrification.
(4) It will also recommend ways to incentivise all parents to take up the offer of classes.
(5) A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: “Our welfare reforms are incentivising work and restoring fairness to the system, because we know that work is the best route out of poverty.
(6) But while May appeared to suggest she would seek guarantees, she will also have to deal with the question of the point at which new rules are enacted, and whether they could be set retrospectively to avoid incentivising a spike in immigration.
(7) But that tension – between producers incentivised to build their content business and broadcasters strapped to the wheel of maximising on-air performance – has proved impossible to resolve.
(8) He called for more imaginative ways to incentivise the pharmaceutical industry, for example through changes to patents, and for regulation around clinical trials to be eased.
(9) The task is made harder still because of the intense pressures from Centrica's shareholders to deliver extraordinarily high financial rates of return, made worse because the directors' team, rewarded in bonuses and options related to share-price performance, are strongly incentivised to focus only on the share price.
(10) Instead, the only approaches that this government knows are to deregulate and incentivise the private sector, in the belief that, ultimately, it will meet the city’s housing needs unaided.
(11) "Ofcom fears that as Sky develops its online services its market power could transfer to these new services and that it will be enabled and indeed incentivised to charge high prices," said Tony Ballard, a partner at law firm Harbottle & Lewis.
(12) He denied that: there is a fear factor ingrained into the whole culture of Sports Direct; that some shop workers are told they can be dismissed for three misdemeanours; that workers sometimes feel under pressure to mislead customers and the commission scheme only incentivises them to sell Sports Direct brands; that finish times on rotas are not adhered to; that there is inadequate training and that the company has been paying shop workers less than the legal minimum.
(13) The new plan cites funding for electric taxis and hydrogen vehicles that had already been announced and commits only to “exploring” vehicle tax changes to incentivise cleaner cars and lorries.
(14) Claire O’Rourke, the national director of Solar Citizens, said renewable energy was a cost-of-living issue, because incentivising household solar panels allowed people to reduce their electricity bill.
(15) We have a system at present that doesn’t incentivise politicians to do anything about migrants, so you see stereotypes like “migrants take jobs”, “migrants are terrorists”, “migrants are security risks”, “they are criminals”, “they bring illnesses”, all these stereotypes that have been demonstrated to be false by social science simply continue to be in the public discourse because no one is speaking up against them, neither the migrants nor we citizens.
(16) The problem is that these are no longer the harmless peccadilloes of the super-rich, presented as fundamental to incentivise performance.
(17) Doctors know that better care can cost less and we can use the tariff to incentivise better, more efficient care for patients."
(18) Palace’s offer is heavily incentivised and it also contains a break clause that would be triggered in the event of Adebayor breaching any of the club’s disciplinary rules.
(19) ¤ create a comprehensive affordable housing development programme to incentivise the creation of quality mixed use developments in high demand locations based upon the principles of high density development around strengthened transport nodes, using dedicated delivery vehicles such as Housing Regeneration Companies.
(20) Second, I would consider targeted tax cuts that are not too costly to the Treasury – for example cutting the 50% tax rate to 40% to incentivise entrepreneurial activity.