incentivize

• incentivise

incentive +‎ -ize

incentivize (third-person singular simple present incentivizes, present participle incentivizing, simple past and past participle incentivized)

1. (transitive, US, business, economics) To provide incentives for; to encourage.

   The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.

2. (transitive, US, business, economics) To provide incentives to.

   They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.

• Used relatively more than incent to refer to the use of systems of incentives.

• disincentivize

• incent