Incentive vs Concession - What's the difference?
incentive | concession |
Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
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Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
* Dr. H. More
Serving to kindle or set on fire.
* Milton
the act of conceding, especially that of defeat
something, such as an argument, that is conceded or admitted to be wrong
(rhetoric) Admitting a point to strengthen one's overall case.
the grant of some land to be used for a specified purpose
(chiefly, US) a contract to operate a small business as a subsidiary of a larger company, or within the premises of some institution; the business itself and the space from which it operates
(Canada) In Ontario, a small road between tracts of farmland.
As nouns the difference between incentive and concession
is that incentive is something that motivates, rouses, or encourages while concession is the act of conceding, especially that of defeat.As an adjective incentive
is inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.As a verb concession is
to grant or approve by means of a concession agreement.incentive
English
(wikipedia incentive)Noun
(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Antonyms
* disincentiveDerived terms
* incentivise/incentivize, tax incentiveAdjective
(en adjective)- Competency is the most incentive to industry.
- Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
