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incentive

[in-sen-tiv] / ɪnˈsɛn tɪv /


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Even that wasn’t incentive enough for some dairy farmers, whom developers were offering 10, 20, 50 times what they had paid for their land.

From Los Angeles Times

She warned in an opinion piece in the New York Times that the company would face huge incentives to manipulate users and keep them hooked.

From The Wall Street Journal

They lack the vision to imagine a path forward and the incentive to change.

From The Wall Street Journal

“To compound matters, there is little incentive for buyers to purchase fuel to inject into storage sites, with summer prices still slightly higher than those for next winter.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Fraser’s base salary of $1.5 million stayed the same as it has been the prior three years, but incentives were higher.

From The Wall Street Journal