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Incentive

Definitions: Incentive

Incentive

Noun

1. A positive motivational influence.

2. An additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "incentive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Incentive

DomainDefinitions

Economics

A motivational force that stimulates people to greater activity or increased efficiency. (references)

Language

That which influences or encourages to action; motive; spur; stimulus; as, the desire for promotion is often a powerful incentive to action. Source: European Union. (references)

Medicine

Motive for acting in a certain way. A procedure designed to encourage a desired response from people. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Incentive

Synonyms: bonus (n), inducement (n), motivator (n). (additional references)
Antonym: disincentive (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Incentive

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Motive

Incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus, rowel, provocative, whet, dram.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Incentive

English words defined with "incentive": Botargodynamicgolden handshakeincentive option, incentive program, incentive scheme, incentive stock option, incitemoral force, motivate, motivated, moveprompt, propelsales incentive, supply-side economics. (references)
Specialty definitions using "incentive": Abandoned wells, Agricultural Conservation Programbase payCoastal Zone Management ProgramDairy Export Incentive Program, DEIP, DISTRICT ADVISER, district directorEIP, Emerson plan, Employee Incentive Plans, Export Incentive ProgramForestry Incentive Program, FOUR-H CLUB AGENTguaranteed rate, guaranteed wageshourly earningsincentive pay, Incentive payments, Incentive Rate, incentive wage, INSURANCE, IR-4MANAGER, COMPENSATION, Market Access Program, Merrick multiple piece rate plan, methods analyst, MSINational Wool Act of 1954Physician Incentive Plans, Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970QSIReimbursement, Incentive, Renewable Energy Production Incentivesame-day service, State technical committeetax saving credit, tax sparing, TIME-OF-USE RATESUruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994wage and salary administrator, wage pattern, wage rate, Water Quality Initiative, Wool and mohair commodity programs. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Incentive" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (encourage).

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Modern Usage: Incentive

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Money is our incentive now so that makes it okay ("I Believe"; performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Incentive

DomainTitle

References

  • Incentive A/S: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Build Internal Motivation into Your Incentive Programs [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace (reference)

  • How to Design and Install Sales Incentive Compensation Plans (reference)

  • Incentive Compensation and Employee Ownership (reference)

  • Price Caps and Incentive Regulation in Telecommunications (Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series, Vol 6) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Incentive

AuthorQuotation

Hosea Ballou

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey

Any recruiter will tell you that the incentive for enlistment is that it [being drafted] is inevitable if you don't.

Sir Philip Sidney

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Incentive

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

They should also include additional reasons for avoiding sun exposure that may provide more incentive to many people, in particular that of avoiding premature skin wrinkles. (references)

Sickle cell anemia patients with severe chest or back pain that prevents them from breathing deeply may be able to avoid potentially serious lung complications associated with acute chest syndrome by using an incentive spirometer. (references)

Business

The key contacts however, are exclusively incentive travel related. (references)

There are several Belgian-based tour operators that offer incentive packages. (references)

In such a context, there has been little incentive to promote HAD care in France. (references)

Children

China

The minimum age for adopting a healthy child is now set at 30 instead of 35. Some observers worry that the law, which became effective in 1999, may eliminate the age-based incentive for the adoption of children with special needs. (references)

Guatemala

PRONADE, a privately run program under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, continued to give incentive scholarships to girls, although due to budget cuts, only 10,000 were granted, a significantly smaller number than in 2000. Public health analyses showed that 60 percent of the cases of infant mortality and 76 percent of the cases of maternal mortality were preventable through attention to basic health and environmental measures that have been neglected. (references)

Civil Liberties

Australia

During the year, the Government and DIMA agreed that detention of asylum seekers generally will not be funded for longer than 14 weeks, giving the agency a financial incentive to expedite case handling. (references)

Economic History

Singapore

Period varies depending on the incentive granted. (references)

Panama

The tourism incentive law expands this period for up to 40 years. (references)

Mexico

The only significant federal tax incentive is accelerated depreciation. (references)

Human Rights

Poland

The long wait for routine court decisions in commercial matters is an incentive for bribery and corruption. (references)

Georgia

Due to the Government's fiscal crisis, at times judges' salaries have gone unpaid up to 6 months, creating an incentive for corruption. (references)

India

In response to these disturbances, the Government revoked the extended ceasefire on July 27. Surrenders by militants in the northeast, often under Government incentive programs, have been common in recent years. (references)

Minorities

Tajikistan

While the Government repeatedly has expressed its desire for the ethnic Russian and Slavic populations to remain, economic conditions provide little incentive for them to do so, and some local Russians and other Slavs perceived an increase in negative social attitudes toward them. (references)

Political Economy

PARAGUAY

As an incentive to investment, the tax rate on reinvested profits is 10 percent. (references)

HUNGARY

Other incentive programs exist, including some offered by counties and municipalities. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

With separate electorates, representatives have little incentive to promote their minority constituents' interests. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

Free Trade Zones and the "Regime of Active Finishing" are the only export incentive systems remaining in Costa Rica. (references)

Japan

The Japanese government grants tax credits and other tax incentives to Japanese manufacturers as an incentive to increase imports. (references)

Travel

Australia

Australia is a sought-after international destination for conventions, corporate meetings, and corporate incentive travel. (references)

Colombia

Keeping in mind (and planning for) a long wait for a U.S. visa is especially important for companies that organize cruises and incentive travel. (references)

Women

South Africa

In 2000 the Department of Trade and Industry began a program to provide incentive grants to promote the development of small and medium businesses and microenterprises for women, and for young persons and persons with disabilities in the areas of manufacturing, tourism, arts and crafts, and imports and exports. (references)

Worker Rights

Solomon Islands

Given low wages and high unemployment, there is little incentive to employ child labor. (references)

Burma

Some joint ventures circumvented this with supplemental pay or special incentive systems. (references)

Dominican Republic

For example, many companies use an incentive system in which a team of 12 to 15 persons is given a quota to fill by the end of the week, in order to receive extra benefits. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. INSURANCE AGENT: My dear sir, that is a fine house -- pray let me insure it. HOUSE OWNER: With pleasure. Please make the annual premium so low that by the time when, according to the tables of your actuary, it will probably be destroyed by fire I will have paid you considerably less than the face of the policy. INSURANCE AGENT: O dear, no -- we could not afford to do that. We must fix the premium so that you will have paid more. HOUSE OWNER: How, then, can I afford that? INSURANCE AGENT: Why, your house may burn down at any time. There was Smith's house, for example, which -- HOUSE OWNER: Spare me -- there were Brown's house, on the contrary, and Jones's house, and Robinson's house, which -- INSURANCE AGENT: Spare me! HOUSE OWNER: Let us understand each other. You want me to pay you money on the supposition that something will occur previously to the time set by yourself for its occurrence. In other words, you expect me to bet that my house will not last so long as you say that it will probably last. INSURANCE AGENT: But if your house burns without insurance it will be a total loss. HOUSE OWNER: Beg your pardon -- by your own actuary's tables I shall probably have saved, when it burns, all the premiums I would otherwise have paid to you -- amounting to more than the face of the policy they would have bought. But suppose it to burn, uninsured, before the time upon which your figures are based. If I could not afford that, how could you if it were insured? INSURANCE AGENT: O, we should make ourselves whole from our luckier ventures with other clients. Virtually, they pay your loss. HOUSE OWNER: And virtually, then, don't I help to pay their losses? Are not their houses as likely as mine to burn before they have paid you as much as you must pay them? The case stands this way: you expect to take more money from your clients than you pay to them, do you not? INSURANCE AGENT: Certainly; if we did not -- HOUSE OWNER: I would not trust you with my money. Very well then. If it is certain, with reference to the whole body of your clients, that they lose money on you it is probable, with reference to any one of them, that he will. It is these individual probabilities that make the aggregate certainty. INSURANCE AGENT: I will not deny it -- but look at the figures in this pamph -- HOUSE OWNER: Heaven forbid! INSURANCE AGENT: You spoke of saving the premiums which you would otherwise pay to me. Will you not be more likely to squander them? We offer you an incentive to thrift. HOUSE OWNER: The willingness of A to take care of B's money is not peculiar to insurance, but as a charitable institution you command esteem. Deign to accept its expression from a Deserving Object.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Incentive

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953The deferred demand of the war years and the large accumulations of liquid assets provide ample incentive for expansion.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974An announcement of a fixed timetable for our withdrawal would completely remove any incentive for the enemy to negotiate an agreement.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981This additional incentive to participate will further strengthen the reserve.

George Bush

1989-1993I know their are differences among us about the impact and the effects of a capital gains incentive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Incentive

"Incentive" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Incentive" is used about 1,306 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.92%1,3056,068
Unclassified Items0.08%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,306N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Incentive

CountryNameCountryName
Denmark

Incentive A/S

South Africa

Incentive Holdings Limited

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Incentive

Expressions using "incentive": act as an incentive buying incentive Employee Incentive Plans export incentive incentive bonus incentive earning incentive fare incentive group fare incentive option incentive pay incentive program incentive scheme incentive stock option incentive wage investment incentive Physician Incentive Plans sales incentive tax incentive wage incentive. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "incentive": incentive-based, incentive-compatible, incentive-oriented, incentive-residual.

Ending with "incentive": severance-incentive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Incentive

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

incentive

460

incentive program

311

employee incentive

172

incentive travel

160

incentive award

98

incentive compensation

95

corporate incentive

82

incentive spirit

74

ford incentive

69

gm incentive

69

new car incentive

58

auto incentive

56

dealer incentive

55

incentive compensation plan

53

sales incentive

50

incentive toyota

47

incentive stock option

45

business incentive

42

incentive plan

41

car incentive

39
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Incentive

Language Translations for "incentive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

stimul (impetus, oestrum, oestrus, stimulus), nxitje (abetment, challenge, cheer, countenance, dare, dig, drive, egging, encouragement, exhortation, fomentation, impetus, impulsion, incitement, inducement, instancy, instigation, kick, oestrum, oestrus, pressure, prod, prompt, prompting, stimulation, stimulus, urge), nxitës (abetter, abettor, aphrodisiac, cordial, encouraging, excitant, fillip, fire brand, fomenter, hortative, hortatory, impellent, incendiary, inciting, inflammatory, instigator, lively, mainspring, piquant, poignant, promoter, provocative, sexy, sponsor, stimulant, stimulating, warmonger). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مكافأة (consideration, hay, pay, pay off, payment, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retribution, reward, rewarding), ‏محرك (engine, motive, motor, moving), ‏مثير (agitating, breathtaking, electrifying, excitant, excitative, exciting, fomenting, galvanizing, hair raising, impetus, inciting, inspiring, instigating, irritative, provocative, provoking, rousing, sensational, sore, spectacular, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, thrilling), ‏حافز (impulse, motivation, motive, push, reaction, stimulant), ‏دافع باعث (cause, ground, impetus, impulse), ‏باعث (impulse, inducement, motive, reason, stimulus). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

поощрение (advancement, encouragement, fosterage, promotion), подтик (drive, fillip, goad, hypo, impulse, inducement, prompting, propulsion, push, relish, sanction, spur, stimulus, urge, whet), подбуда (impulse, inducement, inspiration, motion, motive, persuasive, prod, prompting, sanction, spring, spur, stimulus). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

刺激 (fueled, fueling, Goaded, Goading, Jarred, jarring, motivate, motivating, motivation, stimulate, stimulated, stimulating, stimulation, Stimuli, stimulus). (various references)

   

Czech

  

stimul (inducement), popud (goad, impulse, incitement, initiative, stimulus), podnìt (impulse, initiative, stimulus, suggestion, swing), pobídka (encouragement, goad, inducement, spur). (various references)

   

Danish

  

incitament, skatte-og afgiftsbegunstigelse (inducement, tax incentive). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stimulans (stimulant), fiscale stimuleringsmaatregel (inducement, tax incentive), belastingprikkel (inducement, tax incentive). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فتنه انگیز, موجب (Cause, Inducement), مشوق , انگیزه (Cause, Goad, Impetus, Inducement, Motive, Mover, Propellant, Stimulant, Stimulus), اتش افروز (Incendiary, Tinder). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yllyke (drive, impulse, incitement), kiihoke (incitement, stimul|us). (various references)

   

French

  

incitation fiscale (inducement, tax incentive), incitation (incitation, incitement, inducement, instigation), incitateur (inciter, inciting), stimulant fiscal (inducement, tax incentive), stimulant, récompense, prime (incentive earning), motive, motivation (inducement), carotte (increment core). (various references)

   

German

  

anreiz (attraction, encouragement, impetus, incitement, inducement, inductance, stimulation, stimulus). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κίνητρο (motivation, motive, stimulus). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ממריץ (stimulant), תמריץ (encouragement, fillip, impetus, inducement, spur, stimulant), ע"ו" (cheer, encouragement, exhoration, stimulus). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ösztönzés (fillip, fomentation, impetus, impulse, incitement, instigation, motivation, prompting, spur, stimulation, urge). (various references)

   

Italian

  

incentivo (inducement, stimulant). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(exciting cause, incitement), 刺激 (encouragement, excitement, impetus, irritation, motivation, stimulus). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

し'きぶつ (stimulus), し'きせい (irritative, stimulative), し'き (drama in verse, encouragement, excitement, historical drama, impetus, irritation, motivation, stimulus), どうい" (agent, inducement, mobilization), どうき (contemporary, copperware, corresponding period, motive, palpitation, pulsation, same class, same period, same temperament, same turn of mind, synchronous, throbbing), ゆうい" (attraction, enticement, exciting cause, good day for business and lawsuits, incitement, inducement), インセンティブ , は'み (encouragement, stimulus). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

동기 발. (various references)

   

Manx

  

oyr (cause, matter, motive, occasion, reason), greesaghey (abet, accelerate, agitate, drive, egg on, excitation, excite, excitement, fire, fire enthusiasm, foment, fomentation, foster, incite, instigate, instigation, press, prod, provocation, provoke, stir, stir up). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

incitament, oppmuntring (encouragement), ansporende. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

incentiveay

   

Portuguese

  

incentivo fiscal (inducement, tax incentive), turíbulo (censer, thurible), motivação (motivation), estímulo (actuation, animation, excitation, fillip, fond, fuel, impulse, incitement, inducement, kick, motivations, persuasive, pickpocket, prod, spur, stimulant, stimulus), bafo (breath, exhale, impulse, patronage, protection, puff, waft, whiff). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

imbold (fillip, goad, impetus, impulse, impulsion), stimulent (cordial, drive, fillip, impetus, impulse, pick me up, spur, stimulant, stimulus, whet), stimulativ (stimulative), îndemn (admonishment, impulse, inducement, urge), încurajator (encouraging, heartening, inspiriting). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

побуждение (drive, exhortation, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incitement, inducement, motion, motive, oestrum, oestrus, persuasive, prompting, urge), побудительный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

raspaljiv (inflammatory), podsticaj (abetment, fillip, goad, impetus, impulse, impulsion, prod, spur, stimulus, whet). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

incentivo (mainspring, stimulus). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

motivation. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สิ่งกระตุ้น (spur), ที่เป็นสิ่งกระตุ้น. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

isteklendirme, teşvik etme (encouraging, incitation), teşvik edici (encouraging, hortative, inciting), harekete geçirici, güdü (drive, go, impetus, motivation, motive, numen, spur), dürtü (challenge, compulsion, drive, ginger, impetus, impulse, impulsion, motivation, motive, spur, stimulation, urge), özendirme (encouragement, whetstone), özendirici (encouraging). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

стимул (goad, incitement, inducement, oestrus, spur, stimulus, whet), спонукальний (impellent, impulsive, inductive, motive), спонука (impetus, impulse, impulsion, motion, motivation, motive, oestrus, persuasive, provocation, urge), надихаючий (rousing), заохочувальний (encouraging). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự khuyến khích (spur, stimulation), sự khích lệ, khuyến khích (stimulating), khích lệ; thúc đẩy. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Incentive

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

adhortamini, fomes, stimulus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Incentive

Derivations

Words beginning with "incentive": incentives. (additional references)

Words ending with "incentive": counterincentive, disincentive. (additional references)

Words containing "incentive": counterincentives, disincentives. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Incentive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incendi, incendive, incentice, incentiive, incentinve, incentived, incetive, indentive, insentive, insertive, insintive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Incentive"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "incentive" (pronounced i'nse"ntiv or i'nse"niv)
7-n s e" n t i vdisincentive.
5-e" n t i vattentive, inattentive, inventive, preventive.
4-n t i vappointive, plaintive, substantive.
3-t i vabortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inactive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, investigative, irrespective, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, subjective, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Incentive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-n-t-v"

-2 letters: invitee.

-3 letters: entice, evince, incite, intine, invent, invite, venine.

-4 letters: civet, civie, event, evict, evite, niece, nieve, venin, vinic.

-5 letters: cent, cete, cine, cite, etic, even, inti, nene, neve, nevi, nice, nine, nite, teen, tine, vein, vent, vice, vine.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-n-n-t-v"
 

+1 letter: incentives.

 

+2 letters: incentivize.

 

+3 letters: antiviolence, denunciative, disincentive, incentivized, incentivizes, inconvenient, nondirective, noninfective, renunciative.

 

+4 letters: cantilevering, disincentives, inconsecutive, inconvertible, invectiveness.

 

+5 letters: connectivities, inadvertencies, inconveniently, noncompetitive, nondescriptive, noninteractive, nonrestrictive, vindictiveness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Incentive


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 63 65 6E 74 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    -.-.    .    -.    -    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#99 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0063 0065 006E 0074 0069 0076 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

438069718086758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Speeches
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Company Usage
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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