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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motivate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The farming achievements of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were also motivated by the need for more food.
▪ Takla Haymanot of Gojjam, another of John's powerful and ambitious subjects, was also motivated solely by self-interest.
▪ A more general consideration also motivates us to include semantics in the grammar of a language.
▪ It is also motivated by psycholinguistic evidence, although we make no claims of psychological reality for the model.
highly
▪ They are highly motivated and rarely compromise.
▪ A highly intelligent, highly motivated, and extremely personable young woman, Crystal has had numerous supports along the way.
▪ It is essential therefore that the managers are highly motivated.
Highly motivated and highly skilled individuals will prosper in this environment.
▪ Students are highly motivated, participate actively in the learning process and receive feedback as to the progress made.
▪ Like most epileptics who are surgical candidates, Neil is highly motivated.
▪ It was a motley but highly motivated crew, and in a poll with just 32 % turnout that did the trick.
▪ Immigrants tend to be a highly motivated, self-selected group with a strong will to succeed.
more
▪ No, Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others.
▪ It was an inspired piece of public relations, though more motivated by sheer pride and genuine gratification than any other motive.
▪ Most historians see Montgomerie as a rather unstable figure, motivated more by ambition than political principle.
politically
▪ The potential for mischief in the international system by politically motivated or overzealous prosecutions is great.
▪ But some think dismissal was politically motivated.
▪ He says the election is coming up soon and he thinks it's politically motivated.
▪ But he does deny that his opposition is politically motivated.
▪ Councils are going back to being politically motivated and this is not a good thing.
▪ But he said he did not know if all of those killings were politically motivated.
▪ There were no signs that the attack had been politically motivated.
▪ She said the timing of the vote was politically motivated.
primarily
▪ He, and the leaders of the extremist parties in coalition with him, are motivated primarily by ideology.
▪ And although the Buddhist monk who shot him dead was motivated primarily by personal grievances, this chauvinism played a part.
▪ The rational-economic individual is primarily motivated by economic incentives.
racially
▪ Superintendent Mark Whyman said no one had described the initial fights as racially motivated.
▪ Some students at Andress High School said the fight was racially motivated.
▪ Police are treating it as a racially motivated attack.
▪ Shootings and other racially motivated violence perpetrated by private citizens continued to the end of the Carter years.
▪ Perhaps not surprisingly given this, they believed that crime against them was racially motivated.
▪ In New York a series of events caused blacks to mobilize against racially motivated violence and exacerbated race relations in the city.
▪ The disagreement weakened efforts to demand positive government policy and to insist that perpetrators of racially motivated violence against blacks be punished.
▪ Willie Brown isn't perfect, I know that, but some of the attacks are racially motivated.
strongly
▪ Staff and parents need to be strongly motivated to seek an integrated placement in a children's day centre or nursery school.
▪ He is strongly motivated by a desire for the collection never to be split up again.
▪ This is most appropriate for research situations where the teachers themselves are strongly motivated and committed to the research.
▪ These users are very strongly motivated and persistent.
well
▪ The family doctor may choose to manage patients who are well motivated and not severely emaciated.
▪ I was well motivated and certainly used to studying and figuring out how things work.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ Although he had an unrivalled ability to motivate players, Docherty's approach often bordered on theatre of cruelty.
▪ What matters is your ability to motivate people, and that is kind of a nebulous term.
▪ Charismatic authority - this is where authority rests on the ability to motivate others by the strength of personality.
action
▪ He expected good behaviour and his rather grim glance in her direction did more to motivate her into action than any coaxing.
▪ You will need to he motivated into action.
▪ People can be motivated to take action in defence of some one who can protect them from the effects of industrialism.
child
▪ It is parents who have to produce healthy, motivated children before the education process can begin.
▪ You encourage or motivate your child by reinforcing his/her efforts, but this isn't as straight forward as you might think.
▪ Did the pictures motivate the children? 4.
▪ Although reward may not represent very much extra incentive for the bright and successful, it motivates the unsuccessful child highly.
▪ Is it the teacher's job to motivate the child at school?
concern
▪ Inpart they were motivated by concern to shore up the influence of their class over provincial affairs.
▪ The brick story that dominated 1986 and 1987 was essentially motivated by concern about how the exterior would look.
▪ The Prime Minister was clearly motivated by growing public concern about education and the work of the schools.
▪ On the other hand, Congress was motivated by ideological concerns.
consideration
▪ The use of penalties to choose the bounding variable is motivated by two considerations.
▪ However, the overture also appears to have been motivated by economic considerations.
desire
▪ The pact was ostensibly motivated by a desire to eradicate political dynasties and corruption in favour of political renovation and democratic change.
▪ In other words, behavior is generally motivated by a desire to attain some goal.
▪ All that is motivated by their desire to compete against rugby league.
▪ What motivated my desire to write about the homeless from the position of that doorway was a woman named Gerri Willinger.
▪ It may well be that, throughout our careers we are motivated by the desire to satisfy different needs. 2.
▪ Hubbell was motivated by a desire to protect the Clintons, the senators suggested.
▪ If we are at the bottom of the organisation we may be motivated by the desire to satisfy physiological needs.
▪ He is strongly motivated by a desire for the collection never to be split up again.
fear
▪ Religion, Professor Berti continues, is the term for this subordination of reason to imagination, a subordination motivated by fear.
▪ This diminishes the chances of accidental war or pre-emptive strikes motivated by unfounded fears.
▪ However, the fun-lover is motivated by a fear of pain, which he or she tries to escape.
group
▪ Immigrants tend to be a highly motivated, self-selected group with a strong will to succeed.
money
▪ He doesn't believe that extra money motivates, whether that money be a bonus, profit sharing or a salary increase.
▪ This means that advertisers have to produce commercials that will be noticed and will motivate viewers to spend money.
▪ The directly employed building operative may be motivated by factors other than money incentives.
need
▪ The farming achievements of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were also motivated by the need for more food.
▪ The sub-contractor is motivated by the need to maximise his earnings.
▪ It's argued that psychoanalysts are motivated by the need to influence and control.
▪ We are motivated by our needs when they are not satisfied.
part
▪ Loss of momentum occurs when other people are not motivated to do their part.
▪ Johnson's triumph led to racially-motivated riots in parts of the United States. 8.
people
▪ The first question concerns the individual, structural, and cultural factors that motivate people to rebel.
▪ What matters is your ability to motivate people, and that is kind of a nebulous term.
▪ Want to motivate and lead other people.
▪ Many theories exist about what motivates people and why.
▪ Whatever motivates you is most likely to motivate your people too.
▪ The food delivery service, according to Lane, should be used to motivate people to improve their lives.
▪ Compact aims to motivate young people to improve their educational achievements.
▪ Watergate, the political scandal that so motivated these young people, is 25 years old this year.
staff
▪ Similarly, challenging objectives should motivate staff and encourage creativity.
▪ Or through their charisma, reputation, energy, or sheer popularity - qualities which help win business and motivate staff.
▪ As long as this biased reward system persists, motivating teaching staff to improve the training of medical students will be difficult.
▪ Management have the responsibility for accomplishing these objectives; it is their responsibility to motivate staff and direct activities.
student
▪ The final chapter, Chapter 8, provides very useful guidance in further reading which can be invaluable to the motivated student.
team
▪ Do any offer help to the project manager in motivating the team?
▪ Jobs claimed that he could motivate the team to complete the project in little more than a year.
▪ His greatest quality is the way he motivates his team.
▪ Successful background in driving tasks and projects, and effectively motivating a team towards achievement of goals.
work
▪ The family needs to be motivated to make this work.
▪ To be sure, dressing up the college admissions application often motivates the teen charity work, but so what?
▪ The demonstration was motivated by theoretical work which provides the real justification for the interpretation given.
▪ Content theories are concerned with explaining those things which actually motivate people at work arising from needs, expectations and goals.
■ VERB
help
▪ An earnout may help to continue to motivate the vendors and secure their services even after they have received the initial consideration.
▪ That would also help him with motivating and evaluating the site supervisors who reported to him now.
▪ Motivating others Memos are sometimes used to help motivate others.
seem
▪ According to the Description Theory, names mean some definite description, but none seems motivated or necessary.
▪ Neely and the team seem to have been motivated by the turmoil.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
politically/economically/financially etc motivated
▪ But he does deny that his opposition is politically motivated.
▪ But he said he did not know if all of those killings were politically motivated.
▪ But some think dismissal was politically motivated.
▪ Five people were killed and 10 injured in overnight politically motivated violence in black townships around Johannesburg.
▪ However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
▪ She said the timing of the vote was politically motivated.
▪ The potential for mischief in the international system by politically motivated or overzealous prosecutions is great.
▪ Yet because they are politically motivated they may be, in some degree, distrusted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Every good teacher knows that criticism does not motivate learners.
▪ He was motivated by a desire to help his fellow man.
▪ I don't know what motivates people to commit such crimes.
▪ It's frustration that motivates babies to learn to walk.
▪ It's often more difficult to motivate boys than girls.
▪ Many in the Asian community feel that the police actions were motivated by racial bias.
▪ Not all people are motivated by self-interest.
▪ Only one third of workers said their supervisors know what motivates them to do their best work.
▪ What can we do to motivate the players?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Haguellar had successfully used the Davis Cup carrot to motivate his lower ranked players.
▪ Ironically, it was the fear of congressional action against noncitizens that had finally motivated him to apply for citizenship.
▪ It may even motivate his crowd.
▪ It was abhorrence of waste of any kind of resource that motivated him.
▪ To motivate others to implement their decisions, they need strong leadership qualities.
▪ Whatever motivates you is most likely to motivate your people too.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motivate

Motivate \Mo"ti*vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. -vated; p. pr. & vb. n. -vating.] [From Motive, n.] To provide with a motive; to move; impel; induce; incite. -- Mo`ti*va"tion, n.
--William James.

Syn: move, prompt, incite, induce impel, drive.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
motivate

1863, "to stimulate toward action," from motive + -ate (2); perhaps modeled on French motiver or German motivieren. Related: Motivated; motivating.

Wiktionary
motivate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage. 2 (context transitive English) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action

WordNet
motivate

v. give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite]

Wikipedia
Motivate (company)

Motivate (formerly Alta Bicycle Share) (also known as Alta Bike Share and Motivate International Inc.) is a company based in New York City , that operates bicycle sharing systems in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The systems provide a flexible method for completing short trips, as contrasted with the longer rentals offered by traditional bike rental companies. Motivate (as Alta) was listed in Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" for 2014.

In October 2014, it was announced that the company had been acquired by Bikeshare Holdings LLC and would be relocating headquarters from Portland, Oregon to New York City under the leadership of Jay Walder.

Usage examples of "motivate".

By then, the agrarian conditions that had motivated the Huk Rebellion in the 1940s and 1950s had worsened throughout much of the nation.

In late 1997, he applied for permission to complete his course work in Hamburg, a request apparently motivated by his desire to join Atta and Binalshibh.

Who could have thought that this Hoo was in dead earnest, and before leaving the bridal room, motivated by Heaven knows what old grudge, dropped poison in the teapot that was standing by the side of the bridal bed?

Surely ghouls and ghosts, goblins and monsters, had no power over those who were properly groomed, deodorized, fluoridated, dressed, fed, employed, and motivated.

Still, human energies lasted longer than any other species in entechment, whether slaved to shipboard circuits or motivating battle droids.

In the absence of a smoking guna confession, a witness, or a paper trailit is extremely difficult to prove that a judge was improperly motivated in rendering a decision favorable to a particular litigant.

He had forgotten that Izzard was really only a machine, that she might not be motivated to warn him of serious consequences.

Motivated by the inherent caution and suspicion of the wild beast, Tarzan moved silently through the trees which encircled the kampong, to assure himself that no enemy lurked there.

The fictitious figure of the deposed captain was contrived from a study of psychoneurotic case histories to motivate the central situation and is not a portrait of a real military person or a type.

There were many other facets to his character, and in each case, the intention was to make him as motivated and sympathetic as Rambo, because the viewpoints that divided America came from deep, well-meant convictions.

From what he knew of Vindo sailors, it should take more than homesickness or respect for the Guild to motivate a captain to give up his own space.

Tom would not hurt her by anything he would say, being a man, and braver, and motivated by some vaguely different drives, which had to do with pride and being strong, qualities which she had avoided afl her life.

Special laws against homophobic and racially motivated crimes have already been passed in the United States.

He had read about but never experienced the chill in the air, the cunning onset of dark, the sight of white villages, of animals seeking their nighttime roosts or holes, of nocturnal creatures stirring in the fugitive gloom, the general motivating tendency being one of rapid physical adaptation to a mistimed event.

But are you saying that all philosophically mistaken ideas are psychologically or neurotically motivated?