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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motivation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ On the inside, they are often very different people, with different motivations and aspirations, leading different lives.
▪ Obviously it's going to call for very different motivations, and ways of living, than those we are used to.
great
▪ Nothing could have provided greater motivation for them.
▪ And if health and life are not incentive enough, what could possibly provide greater motivation?
▪ Two said that the benefit would be greater personal motivation and one hoped to inform and involve their Kirk Session.
high
▪ Business understands that continual criticism and complaint are not conducive to high motivation, high productivity and high quality.
▪ The high motivation, skills and adaptability of the new arrivals create social tensions that will be expressed in economic jealousy.
▪ Candidates must have a high motivation to publish and be prepared for exciting teamwork.
▪ Economic constraints or limitations can be overcome given a sufficiently high motivation to do well by the individual entrepreneur.
human
▪ Some political psychologists confront this issue, asking whether there are innate human motivations that affect political behavior.
▪ We must also remember that human motivation is a very complex matter and monist explanations are rarely adequate.
▪ You have experienced the variety of human motivations stirred up by fundamental change in organizations.
individual
▪ To study individual motivation means studying those forces that move a person to behave in a particular way.
▪ Smith also knew that individual motivation, invention, and innovation inspire an economy to greater prosperity.
▪ Olson's early work laid particular emphasis on individual behaviour and motivation.
▪ This implies significant negotiating skills in order to diagnose, manage and reinforce the outcomes of individual motivation.
▪ He never developed a theory of individual motivation because he was not interested in the individual.
▪ Much, of course, depends on individual motivation and capacity.
▪ This requires individual motivation and managerial support, but benefits both the individuals concerned and the service itself.
main
▪ Getting work ticked was my main motivation.
▪ For empiricists, the main mechanism of motivation is reinforcement.
▪ We have always argued that the main motivation for government funding of research should be wealth creation.
▪ That is one of the main motivations behind my motion.
▪ The main motivation in signing reprocessing contracts will simply be to offload spent nuclear fuel on to some one else.
major
▪ It was a major motivation for him, but he also enjoyed canoeing and all outdoor activities.
▪ Admittedly lust was involved, but the major motivation had been that unexplainable, instinctive emotion called love.
▪ Indeed, studies of process workers show that their major motivations in employment are money and relationships.
▪ Humanitarianism has always been one of the major motivations making for socialism.
▪ Both systems have major consequences for motivation patterns.
personal
▪ Whatever the complexities of Hobbes's personal motivations, there was no theoretical inconsistency in all of this.
▪ They recognize that no laws can prevail against the dissolution of the social connections and personal motivations that sustain a civilized polity.
▪ A different view of assessment however, can lead to considerable benefits in terms of the pupils' sense of value and personal motivation.
▪ Two said that the benefit would be greater personal motivation and one hoped to inform and involve their Kirk Session.
▪ This may be a form of behavioural reinforcement operating on the personal motivation of the researcher.
political
▪ My letter has no political motivation.
▪ Therefore, when the wise mediator effects a compromise, he is not acting from political motivation.
▪ Berger's views relate to a specifically political motivation, variously apparent throughout the novel.
▪ Kerry aides Thursday denied there was any political motivation behind sending it.
▪ Sometimes the two slide together uncomfortably, with little attempt to differentiate class groupings levels of consciousness or political motivations.
▪ However, others saw a commercial rather than a political motivation behind the sale.
▪ That means it is essentially political in motivation.
primary
▪ The primary motivation was establishing the Javanese-including the Madurese-as masters over the archipelago.
▪ Although she was a feminist, her primary motivation for joining NoS was the challenge of working on a tabloid.
▪ Dottoressa Letts, what was your primary motivation in founding the Accademia?
▪ It would appear that Peavey's primary motivation is business-orientated - to sell as many Peavey products as he can.
real
▪ It is difficult to say, however, whether the real motivation is social responsibility or vanity.
▪ Until recently nothing had ever been able to offer me any real motivation.
strong
▪ I have a strong motivation to help society.
▪ However, each also needs a strong measure of motivation to provide friendly and responsive customer service.
▪ This provides still stronger motivation to seek new markets.
■ NOUN
employee
▪ The question of employee motivation is regarded as key to the future success of the company.
▪ That concept of product as the focus for employee motivation is not new.
■ VERB
help
▪ Meeting others in the same position, having a chat with friends about dieting endeavours, these things help to maintain motivation.
▪ Explaining a failure in this way will help to maintain motivation for change in the client.
▪ It helps us to understand motivation.
improve
▪ Proper training of food handlers has a vital role in improving their morale and motivation and ensuring that standards are met.
▪ This means that users can control the depth, pace and direction of their learning, which in turn can improve motivation.
▪ And if you do it properly, you should improve staff motivation at the same time.
increase
▪ Allowing the client to choose in this way can often increase their motivation for the success of the treatment.
▪ Poverty generally increases the motivation to offend and diminishes resources available for investigation and crime prevention.
▪ The situation is made more stressful for workers by being given impossibly high targets as an attempt to increase motivation.
lack
▪ It may lead to lack of motivation.
▪ People who lack motivation really lack the cause or goal.
▪ She may lack motivation to increase knowledge and improve skills, and appear uninterested.
▪ As we saw, the new managers were generally surprised that some of their subordinates lacked ability or motivation.
▪ If we failed to get the balance right, teachers would lack the necessary motivation to implement our programmes of study.
▪ Despite a wealth of playing experience, Gray lacked the motivation to lift a struggling side.
▪ The managers I interviewed appeared to lack commitment to improving motivation, although they identified it as a problem.
need
▪ Politicians also need to respect the motivations of those who work in the public sector.
▪ What they need now is motivation, a reason to believe.
▪ Our needs change so that our motivation will change.
▪ Vroom added the idea that need fulfillment and motivation was somewhat more complicated than the others had suggested.
▪ Usually the unwilling merely need motivation, and the unable more training.
▪ Commercial weight-loss programs are best for people who need external motivation.
provide
▪ Wishes provide us with motivation and strategy, for without the greed of a wish we would never get started.
▪ And if health and life are not incentive enough, what could possibly provide greater motivation?
▪ This provides still stronger motivation to seek new markets.
▪ Hard times did not provide the motivation.
▪ He suggests that Gusfield fails to provide evidence of such motivation in the accounts of movement participants.
▪ If they are too hard they provide no motivation.
▪ This provides valuable motivation to continued effort.
▪ Nothing could have provided greater motivation for them.
understand
▪ It helps us to understand motivation.
▪ Try to understand the basic motivations of the people with whom you are working.
▪ The majority failed to understand the motivation of some of the characters.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Enthusiasm and motivation aren't usually problems for this team.
▪ Fame was the main motivation for their efforts.
▪ His motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world.
▪ She enjoyed the excitement of her work. Money was not her only motivation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aspirations, a sense of how we can realise our potential, give us power and motivation.
▪ Deviant motivations, for example, are still taken as given; it is conformity rather than deviance that remains problematic.
▪ It was a major motivation for him, but he also enjoyed canoeing and all outdoor activities.
▪ Participative management is a very powerful motivation because it enables employees to have some measure of influence and control over work-related activities.
▪ That motivation disappeared when it was discovered that the universe is expanding.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
motivation

motivation \motivation\ n.

  1. The act or process of motivating.

  2. The mental process that arouses an organism to action; as, a large part of a teacher's job is to give students the motivation to learn on their own.

    Syn: motive, need.

  3. The goal or mental image of a goal that creates a motivation[2]; as, the image of a peaceful world is a powerful motivation for only a rare few individuals.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
motivation

1873, from motivate + -ion. Psychological use, "inner or social stimulus for an action," is from 1904.

Wiktionary
motivation

n. 1 Willingness of action especially in behavior 2 The action of motivate. 3 Something which motivates. 4 An incentive or reason for doing something. 5 (context advertising English) a research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.

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WordNet
motivation

  1. n. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives" [syn: motive, need]

  2. the condition of being motivated; "his motivation was at a high level"

  3. the act of motivating; providing incentive [syn: motivating]

Wikipedia
Motivation

Motivation is a theoretical construct used to explain behavior. It represents the reasons for people's actions, desires, and needs. Motivation can also be defined as one's direction to behavior, or what causes a person to want to repeat a behavior and vice versa. A motive is what prompts the person to act in a certain way, or at least develop an inclination for specific behavior. According to Maehr and Meyer, "Motivation is a word that is part of the popular culture as few other psychological concepts are."

Motivation (EP)

Motivation EP is the first EP released by Sum 41 on March 12, 2002. It was released after the launch of the single "Motivation" to the public mainly to push the popularity of their single and to include the song " What We're All About" into the discography of the band.

Motivation (Sum 41 song)

"Motivation" is a song recorded by Canadian pop punk band Sum 41. It was released in January 2002 as the third single from the album All Killer No Filler. Greig Nori appears on backing vocals.

Motivation (horse)

Motivation (foaled August 5, 1987 in Argentina) was a Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1993 Hong Kong Invitational Cup. Bred by Adolfo J. Bullrich, he was sired by Egg Toss, a son of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Buckpasser. Out of the mare Frau Lamanche, the colt was first named "Freak Toss." Purchased by Hong Kong shipping tycoon Hui Sai Fun, he raced the United Kingdom from August 1990 through June 1991 where in 10 starts he compiled a record of 1-2-1.

Brought to Hong Kong, he was renamed Motivation. Under trainer John Moore, he won five of eleven races, most notably capturing the prestigious Hong Kong Invitational Cup in 1993.

Motivation (Sheryl Crow song)

"Motivation" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow for her sixth studio album, Detours, and released as a single.

The song has earned praise for its memorable melody and facetious lyrics.

Motivation (band)

Motivation was a short-lived band formed in Manchester, England by bassist and probably leader Steve Garvey, guitarist Dave Rowbotham, drummer Snuff and vocalist Dave Price. Garvey was a former Buzzcocks, Teardrops and Bok Bok member, while Rowbotham was previously in The Durutti Column and then in The Mothmen.

Motivation (Moti Special album)

Motivation is the first studio album of Moti Special, released in 1985 by Teldec label. The band members were: Danish guitarist Nils Tuxen, Romanian keyboardist Michael Cretu, bassist and vocalist Manfred "Thissy" Thiers, and drummer Reinhard "Dickie" Tarrach. The album reached # 20 in the Germany charts.

Motivation (Bertín Osborne album)

Motivation is a studio album released by Bertín Osborne in 1989. It was the first (and to date, only) all-English-language release from the popular Spanish singer. The album was recorded in Miami, Florida, at Criteria Studios and Middle Ear Recording Studio.

Despite Osborne's popularity in Spain, the disc was not officially released in his home country, though it was available as an import.

Motivation (Kelly Rowland song)

"Motivation" is a song performed by American recording artist Kelly Rowland, from her third studio album Here I Am (2011). The song was written by Jim Jonsin, Rico Love, Daniel Morris and Lil Wayne, with Jonsin producing the song and Lil Wayne having featured vocals. The R&B slow-jam serves as the lead single from Here I Am and was released from April 8, 2011. Upon release, "Motivation" received favorable reviews from critics generally praising the sexiness of the song. Official remixes were produced for the song, including an dubstep-inspired electronic mix by Diplo and a rap remix by Busta Rhymes, Trey Songz and Fabolous.

In the United States, the song has peaked at number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart where it stayed seven weeks in a row, and number seventeen on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Rowland's second US top 20 hit (fourth top 30 overall) and her second highest performing single to date as a solo artist, behind " Dilemma". It was certified double platinum by the RIAA in May 2013.

An accompanying music video was directed by Sarah Chatfield, the director behind Rowland's previous video " Forever and a Day" (2010). It follows a number of sultry scenes where Rowland dances seductively amongst partially dressed dancers in a dimly-lit warehouse, with the entire video tinged in blue light. Rowland performed the song for the first time with Trey Songz at the 2011 BET Awards."Motivation" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 54th Grammy Awards.

Motivation (disambiguation)

Motivation is the driving force by which humans achieve their goals.

Motivation may also refer to:

  • Motivation (Bertín Osborne album)
  • Motivation (Moti Special album)
  • Motivation (EP), an EP by Sum 41
    • "Motivation" (Sum 41 song), a single of that EP
  • "Motivation" (Kelly Rowland song)
  • "Motivation" (Sheryl Crow song)
  • Motivation (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Motivation (band), a short-lived band formed in England

Also:

  • Motivate (company) for the company that operates bike sharing systems in many cities

Usage examples of "motivation".

Existential and Rankian positions that the fear of death is the mainspring of human motivation and that man needs to belong to a system of ideas in which mystery exists.

Ultimately, there can be only one theoretically correct way of understanding human psychology, motivation, neurosis and so forth.

The topic was argued between the panellists, each with their different motivations and points to prove.

Aristotle had ranked motivations in a holarchy of deepening significance.

Most attention is given to reshuffling the particularities of the family relationships among the characters and the external motivations of the plot intrigues.

He employed leading, loaded questions unsubstantiated by facts, interrupted by clowning, but hammering home his contention that profits from Tunipah would be excessive and were the major motivation.

Still angry at what he was doing, bewildered by his motivation, Goodman yanked the chocks and entered the airplane, stomping up the narrow aisleway to the cockpit.

This is done not only in an attempt to understand their motivation more deeply than pure public utterance allows, but also because so many of them, often to their ruin, saw their own lives as a seamless whole, their calendar of birth, love, ambition and death imprinted on the almanac of great events.

He soaked with the same sense of luxury that he once would have had for a hot bath, and he hoped that Angevine would understand his motivations.

Conceivably Baumer had been acting from purely personal motivations when he approached her.

Everyone at the convention had all the elements to some degree, but Curran knew it was a question of which motivation was dominant.

Combrit, already handily fixated for them, with a motivation that will make him loyal to what he considers the winning side.

At this stage one moves far from the Hinayana motivation as one directly assaults the innermost core of the ego.

Paulus Hook kids were desperate for passionate teachers, no matter where their true motivations lay.

They sell megavitamins, protein powders, and motivation magazines and tapes in there.