Definition of "incentivize" []

• To offer incentives or an incentive to; motivate: "This bill will help incentivize everybody to solve that part of the problem” ( Richard A. Gephardt). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The only difference is that it would "incentivize" those who are in Mankiw's position as well as his "fellow motorists" to preserve gasoline."
• "The real reason for raising or reducing marginal tax rates is to "incentivize" behavior."
• "Finally, the feds could choose to pressure ( "incentivize") states and cities to straighten out their own affairs through loans to which they attach stringent conditions."