Definition of "incentivized" [incentivized]

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

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• "In this latest chapter, the half-marketized banking sector has also opened its doors to new practices unheard of in China before, namely, "incentivized risk taking" and "leveraged platforms," with greater potential to wreak havoc."
• "Somehow, I doubt that Mankiw himself would be "incentivized" to reduce his own travel by automobile by the modest tax he proposes."
• "What they have "incentivized" executives to do, in countless cases, is not to perform, but to game the system, to smooth the numbers, to take insane risks with other people's money, to do whatever had to be done to ring the bell and send the dollars coursing their way into the designated bank account."