Is there a verb form of "incentive"?

[nq:1]Is there a verb form of "incentive"? If not, what would be the best alternative to the same effect? motivate?[/nq]
I've heard "incentivize". I wouldn't recommend it.

Motivate doesn't imply a reward or pay-off, which is what an incentive usually is. I'd use "offer an incentive to" or "provide" or "give". "We need to motivate them - let's see if we can give them an incentive."

D.J. Kim:
[nq:2]Is there a verb form of "incentive"? If not, what would be the best alternative to the same effect? motivate?[/nq]
Wood Avens:
[nq:1]I've heard "incentivize". I wouldn't recommend it.[/nq]
I've heard "incent". I wouldn't recommend it either.
[nq:1]Motivate doesn't imply a reward or pay-off, which is what an incentive usually is. I'd use "offer an incentive to" o

Wood Avens filted:
[nq:2]Is there a verb form of "incentive"? If not, what would be the best alternative to the same effect? motivate?[/nq]
[nq:1]I've heard "incentivize". I wouldn't recommend it.[/nq]
If you've the nerve, you could coin "incent"..."we just got a crate of t-shirts from the corporate office; let's incent the best workers with them"..r

[nq:1]If you've the nerve, you could coin "incent"..."we just got a crate of t-shirts from the corporate office; let's incent the best workers with them"..r[/nq]
Sounds risky to me. They might be incensed rather than incented.

Katy Jennison
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[nq:1]Is there a verb form of "incentive"?[/nq]
"Incite" is close, but no cigar.
[nq:1]If not, what would be the best alternative to the same effect? motivate?[/nq]
Interest.
Is "co-interest" a word?

Bribe.
Matti

[nq:2]Interest.[/nq]
[nq:1]Bribe.[/nq]
Grease.

[nq:1]Is there a verb form of "incentive"? If not, what would be the best alternative to the same effect? motivate?[/nq]
Encourage, spur, prod.

john

[nq:2]Is there a verb form of "incentive"? If not, what would be the best alternative to the same effect? motivate?[/nq]
[nq:1]I've heard "incentivize". I wouldn't recommend it.[/nq]
I read incentivize all the time these days in deposition transcripts. It's official legalese.

Dena Jo
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[nq:2]I've heard "incentivize". I wouldn't recommend it.[/nq]
[nq:1]I read incentivize all the time these days in deposition transcripts. It's official legalese.[/nq]
A typical pattern in AUE discussions of a new word has people offering already existing words to say the same thing. But in nearly every case a new coinage has a specialized connotation that isn't adequately expressed with fo