"incent" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈsɛnt/ Forms: incents [present, singular, third-person], incenting [participle, present], incented [participle, past], incented [past]
Rhymes: -ɛnt Etymology: Back-formation from incentive. Clipping of incentivize Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|incentive}} Back-formation from incentive, {{clipping|en|incentivize}} Clipping of incentivize Head templates: {{en-verb}} incent (third-person singular simple present incents, present participle incenting, simple past and past participle incented)
  1. (transitive, US) To provide an incentive to (a person or organization). Tags: US, transitive Translations (to provide an incentive to (a person or organization)): Anreize schaffen (German), стимулировать (stimulirovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), побуждать (pobuždatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), побудить (pobuditʹ) [perfective] (Russian), поощрять (pooščrjatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), поощрить (pooščritʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-incent-en-verb-i5X0NfPw Categories (other): American English, English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English back-formations: 63 37 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of 'to provide an incentive to (a person or organization)': 86 14
  2. (transitive, US) To provide an incentive for (something). Tags: US, transitive
    Sense id: en-incent-en-verb-HxTqBTP0 Categories (other): American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: incentivize, incentivise

Inflected forms

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