Thesaurus: incentive

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1. a. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
2. a. Serving to kindle or set on fire.
3. 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.
4. n. a positive motivational influence
5. n. an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output
6. 1. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative. Competency is the most incentive to industry. Dr. H. More. 2. Serving to kindle or set on fire. [R.] Part incentive reed Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire. Milton. 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. The greatest obstacles, the greatest terrors that come in their way, are so far from making them quit the work they had begun, that they rather prove incentives to them to go on in it. South. Syn. -- Motive; spur; stimulus; incitement; encouragement; inducement; influence.
7. That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on thepassions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, todetermination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive;spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are twopowerful incentives to action.The greatest obstacles, the greatest terrors that come in their way,are so far from making them quit the work they had begun, that theyrather prove incentives to them to go on in it. South.
8. n:100 n. a positive motivational influence