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What does motivate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word motivate? Here's what it means.

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  1. (transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.
  2. (transitive) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action
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How do you motivate yourself at 27 when you have already achieved fame and enough money to last a lifetime?
A similar need to divert the audience at every instant seems to motivate the film's incessant stream of chatter.
There are all kinds of methods of professional interrogation, of ways to persuade people, incentivize people, motivate people.
He also hopes that it will help to mobilise and motivate increasingly disinterested voters into the polling booths.
The desire to control mining concessions by the use of proxy forces also appears to motivate the Rwandan government.
These results suggest that paternal expectations motivate fathers' behavior.

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