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Definition of "incentivised" [incentivised]

  • Simple past tense and past participle of incentivise. (verb)

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Use "incentivised" in a sentence
  • "As you said, the person who engages in incentivised behavior pays less than even the person who engages in the desired behavior to avoid the penalty."
  • "The misguided education maintenance allowance was a key illustration of how education is undervalued by citizens; to be "incentivised" - pupils and students paid - by the taxpayer to attend school or college seems quite wrong when the incentive of free education should be enough."
  • "If one pays a fixed price "up front" for a "year's worth of goods or services", one is intuitively "incentivised" to acquire as much of that good as possible; as long as its marginal cost even counting time spent is lower than the perceived marginal benefit."