Incenting

"StrayShots" (Email Removed) averred thusly in
[nq:1]I was recently forwarded a memo announcing that Mother Company will be "incenting" her employees to work more/faster/better. I replied to the author about this usage without invecting him, but he unrecepted me.[/nq]
I don't suppose the author meant "incensing" the employees? That's been my general experience, present jobs excepted.

[nq:1]I was recently forwarded a memo announcing that Mother Company willbe "incenting" her employees to work more/faster/better. I replied tothe author about this usage without invecting him, but he unrecepted me.[/nq]
The verb "incent" is listed in the AHD4 without a usage note. See

http://www.bartl

Tor asked:
[nq:1]I don't suppose the author meant "incensing" the employees?[/nq]
Because of the governing Corporate Policy, the Company never incents the incensed, in the sense of cents sent.

"With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross."

[nq:1]The verb "incent" is listed in the AHD4 without a usage note. See http://www.bartleby.com/61/97/I0079775.html[/nq]
I must remember to thank Bartleby for their enlightening definition:
[nq:2]To incentivize[/nq]
[nq:1]It's also discussed in Evan Morris's Word Detective Web site at

"StrayShots" (Email Removed) averred thusly in
[nq:1]Tor asked:[/nq]
[nq:2]I don't suppose the author meant "incensing" the employees?[/nq]
[nq:1]Because of the governing Corporate Policy, the Company never incents the incensed, in the sense of cents sent. "With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross."[/nq]
Must be quite a scene.
Peace,
Tor

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[nq:2]The verb "incent" is listed in the AHD4 without a usage note. See http://www.bartleby.com/61/97/I0079775.html[/nq]
[nq:1]I must remember to thank Bartleby for their enlightening definition:[/nq]
While www.bartleby.com does us the great service of giving us

[nq:2]I must remember to thank Bartleby for their enlightening definition: To incentivize[/nq]
[nq:1]The verbs "incent" and "incentivize" are candidates for the title of "exact English synonyms," since they are used in exactly the same way and under the same circumstances.[/nq]
Should we therefore expect to find the following definition in AHD4 for "incentivize"?
[nq:2]To incent[/nq]

[nq:2]I must remember to thank Bartleby for their enlightening definition:[/nq]
[nq:1]While www.bartleby.com does us the great service of giving us access to the AHD4, it is the dictionary itself, *The ... synonyms," since they are used in exactly the same way and under the same circumstances. MWCD11 dates "incentivize" to 1970.[/nq]
"Use" and "utilize" (modern sense(1)) would seem to be a

[nq:2]The verbs "incent" and "incentivize" are candidates for the titleof ... used in exactly the sameway and under the same circumstances.[/nq]
[nq:1]Should we therefore expect to find the following definition in AHD4for "incentivize"?[/nq]
No, we should expect to find what we do find, at
http://www.b

[nq:2]While www.bartleby.com does us the great service of giving usaccess ... and under the same circumstances. MWCD11 dates "incentivize" to 1970.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Use" and "utilize" (modern sense(1)) would seem to be anotherexample.[/nq]
Not a bad example, but not a perfect one, I think. I expect that if you were to ask people "What would you say is the story behind the following sentence: 'H