meaning of incentive
1. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
2. Serving to kindle or set on fire.
3. 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. a positive motivational influence
Related Words
incentive | incentive option | incentive program | incentive scheme | incentive stock option | incentively |