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What does incent mean?

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  1. (transitive, US) To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).
  2. (transitive, US) To provide an incentive for (something).
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But we had to find the right numbers to incent them to buy cars and to incent the dealers to sell.
We can also, and this is immensely important, use fiscal mechanisms to determine behaviour and incent proper behaviour.
He also argues that this type of pay is necessary in order to incent executives to make the right, but difficult decisions.
We can't do enough to award excellence, incent it, put a spotlight on it and let the country know how much great teaching matters.
I would argue that sums in the hundreds of millions of dollars are not needed to incent the executive to do the right thing.
I think this R and D needs to happen mostly, dominantly, in the private sector, but government policies can incent that.

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