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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motivator
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Fear, as we all know, is a great motivator.
▪ Community shame is a great motivator, has been for thousands of years in the history of the human race.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Money is a good motivator.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a special-teams coach, Tillman was known as a motivator.
▪ Fear, as we all know, is a great motivator.
▪ Like Kev says I rate him highly both as a defender and a motivator.
▪ Moseley thinks the defeat will serve as a motivator this week against Washington and Washington State.
▪ Sales team motivators and psychologists agree that if you want something to happen badly enough, you can make it happen.
▪ Status can be an important motivator.
▪ The other motivator could be violence on the streets.
▪ This could be a disadvantage but sometimes served as a motivator.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
motivator

1917, agent noun in Latin form from motivate (v.).

Wiktionary
motivator

n. agent noun of motivate; one who motivates.

WordNet
motivator

n. a positive motivational influence [syn: incentive, inducement] [ant: disincentive]

Wikipedia
Motivator (horse)

Motivator (foaled 22 February 2002) is a retired British Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. In a racing career which lasted from August 2004 until October 2005 he ran seven times and won four races. He is best known as the winner of the 2005 Epsom Derby. He was retired to stud where he sired the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Treve.

Motivator

Motivator can mean:

  • A source of motivation
  • A motivational poster
  • Motivator (horse), a racehorse that won the 2005 Epsom Derby
  • MOS Motivator, a container ship

Usage examples of "motivator".

This does not mean I think monetary gain was necessarily the prime motivator in the case, although it could have been.

My main motivator was personal pleasure-and ironically, the more I hungrily sought after it, the more elusive and selfdestructive it became.

You have to phase in and phase out the motivators more slowly, so people can adapt instead of become frustrated.

Sol-pol guards opened the chain-link security fence around the anchor point as the space elevator glided down, silently propelled by motivators along the unseverable cable.

A Sienar Systems augmenter had been added to the drive matrix, a Mark 7 generator to the tractor beam array, a Series 401 motivator to the hyperdrive.

Surely an experienced C Motivator like himself could distangle the confusion of graphemes of an isolated planet, once he put his thought upon it.

Death should be used as a motivator, a form of scared Straight, it is fundemental to the program.

We take the hyperdrive motivators off both engines and see if we can salvage enough components to put together a single functional one.