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 incentive [in'sentiv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 动机

a. 激励的

[经] 鼓励, 奖励


  1. He hasn't much incentive to work hard.
    他没有努力工作的动力。
  2. They don't try very hard if there is no incentive.
    没有奖励，他们工作就不太努力。


incentive
[ noun ]
  1. a positive motivational influence

    2. <noun.motive>
  2. an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

    3. <noun.possession>


Incentive \In*cen"tive\, a. [L. incentivus, from incinere to
strike up or set the tune; pref. in- + canere to sing. See
{Enchant}, {Chant}.]
1. Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action;
stimulative.

Competency is the most incentive to industry. --Dr.
H. More.

2. Serving to kindle or set on fire. [R.]

Part incentive reed
Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
--Milton.


Incentive \In*cen"tive\, n. [L. incentivum.]
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.

The greatest obstacles, the greatest terrors that come
in their way, are so far from making them quit the work
they had begun, that they rather prove incentives to
them to go on in it. --South.

Syn: Motive; spur; stimulus; incitement; encouragement;
inducement; influence.

  1. Chrysler guarantees that if it boosts the rebates before Sept. 30, the automaker will make up the difference to those that bought the vehicles during the current incentive period.
  2. As the government still wants to sell its 40 per cent stakes in both companies, it has an obvious incentive to find an acceptable solution before the market's insouciance fades.
  3. Lawmakers hope this provision will provide an incentive to reverse the prolonged decline in oat production.
  4. But GM also has dropped some cars from the incentive program and cut the rebates on others.
  5. And I don't think it's going to happen, because I think he is aware, as I am, that rates reduced actually increase the economic growth of the country and provide an incentive for more earnings.
  6. "I felt like once they got production up, you were going to get an incentive," he said Thursday. "The numbers just justify it." GM's minivans went on sale last October.
  7. There is a strong incentive for banks to remove non-performing mortgages from their balance sheets, since they require twice as much capital.
  8. Analyst Joseph Phillippi of Shearson Lehman Hutton of New York said some of Chrysler's increase came because of lower incentive costs during the period this year.
  9. Much to the relief of Austrian stockbrokers, bankers and the business community, the ceasefire in neighbouring Yugoslavia is providing an incentive for foreign investors to return to the Vienna stock exchange.
  10. If they think it will rise, they have an incentive to buy securities denominated in that currency.
  11. The maximum bonus amount accumulated at any one time can be Pounds 1,000. But this means a jobseeker will receive no extra money immediately for part-time work - hardly an incentive.
  12. It said it established the plan because it believes stock ownership is a good incentive for employees.
  13. USX did not report any incentive compensation for its top executives in 1986.
  14. But the prospect of leaving jail with hundreds of lawsuits pending must have been strong incentive to settle.
  15. It also criticized Exxon incentive awards for crews who work long hours and said the oil company has "manipulated" shipboard reporting of overtime and workload.
  16. AT&T hopes to convert the pacts into incentive compensation plans to encourage NCR executives to stay.
  17. "It has a motivating effect on the employees, and it gives them incentive to do a good job," Karos said.
  18. Prudential-Bache hasn't served as lead manager on any other auction-rate preferred issues besides First Federal's, and its rivals note it thus has little incentive to use its own capital to prevent the market turmoil that a failure might cause.
  19. 'There was little incentive for a foreign financial institution to set up a branch in Madeira if it was going to be taxed on the earnings of that branch in its home country.
  20. The plan, administered by Cigna Corp., a Philadelphia-based insurer, is a so-called "managed-care" program in which medical care is closely monitored by a principal doctor who has an economic incentive to keep down health-care costs.
  21. GM spokesman Terry Sullivan said per-car incentive costs for the quarter were unavailable.
  22. Equity investment has fallen to below 20 per cent, with only 5.8 per cent, or Y710bn of net cash flow, invested in the stock market. The strength of the yen has taken away incentive for Japanese institutions to invest overseas.
  23. While the price is falling and the surprises keep coming, though, potential bidders have every incentive to wait.
  24. PROPOSED changes to the intestacy laws announced by the lord chancellor, Lord Mackay, should be a powerful incentive to avoid dying without a will, or intestate.
  25. The city council earlier this week passed a $175 million incentive package of its own.
  26. In addition to easing pressure on the state pensions system, the creation of pension funds will strengthen the country's financial markets, he says. For the French government, this is an important incentive.
  27. Traders said prices that were knocked down in previous sessions presented investors with an incentive to buy.
  28. They also have little incentive to take painful decisions whose full benefits will only become apparent long after they have left office. The policy questions surrounding pensions are complex.
  29. There would be an incentive that doesn't exist now.
  30. Ford Motor Co., which builds Lincolns and Mercurys, has said Jackson is an independent businessman who may decide what type of incentive programs he wants to offer.
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