What does incentive mean?
Incentive means Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages..
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/ɪnˈsɛntɪv/ · noun
Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages..
I have no incentive to do housework right now.
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
Management offered the sales team a $500 incentive for each car sold.
Competency is of all other proportions the most incentive to industry.
Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
Use incentive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Incentive means Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages..
Common synonyms include inducement, bonus.
Possible antonyms include disincentive, deterrence.
I have no incentive to do housework right now.
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