An additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

Usage examples of incentive.

I had been giving instructions to the driver, who claimed never to have set foot in Alsatia, a record he seemed anxious to preserve, until I offered the incentive of an extra two shillings.

So, easy as pie, we turned the antismoking organizations into self-perpetuating machines with absolutely no real incentive to reduce smoking.

America: the desperation of starving settlers, the special helplessness of the displaced African, the powerful incentive of profit for slave trader and planter, the temptation of superior status for poor whites, the elaborate controls against escape and rebellion, the legal and social punishment of black and white collaboration.

As such they arc also presumed to be susceptible to manipulation by the counterinsurgent through the psychological warfare techniques of propaganda and indoctrination, through incentive programs, and through fear.

As an added incentive for the dogs, the police sergeant at Lejeune had built and presented as a going-away present four large wooden fire hydrants painted bright red.

Harry Jnr was in trouble, that was all the incentive they needed to move limbs stiffened by death, to will back into pseudolife tissues and sinews long turned to leather and ravaged by the worm.

As an incentive, Leo, if he thought he could manage it, could stay on as a consultant for fifteen percent net over a nonrenewable three-year term.

It will also help to relieve the monotony of Shadowland life and give those unhappy ghosts, who sit in the dumps all day because there is nothing worth doing, an incentive to work.

Several manufacturers have had their own buyers in certain places in the Tropics for some years, and it is generally agreed that this has acted as an incentive to the growers to improve the quality.

Many of them have made careers in the army and the fleet, and they might just throw in their lot with the rebellion if they were offered the right incentives.

They would make the trip, they would prove it could be done, then, if safer fuels were needed, there would be the incentive to dig them out.

United States should propose economic and political incentives for Iraq to moderate its behavior and to increase our influence with Iraq.

It the United States were to launch a full-scale invasion of Iraq with the goal of overthrowing his regime, Saddam would have no incentives for restraint and would undoubtedly lash out at us with everything he had.

I want something done, I find the best way to accomplish my goal is to provide decent incentives to those in a position to help me achieve that goal.

Utopia sought to supply incentives, which was an altogether more difficult research, a problem in its nature irresolvably complex, and admitting of no systematic solution.