Motivate vs Incent - What's the difference?
motivate | incent |
To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.
* The weekly staff meeting was meant to motivate employees.
To animate; to propel; to cause to take action
* He was motivated purely by self-interest.
* Steam motivated pumps are used in manufacturing.
(US) To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 24, author=Damon Darlin, title=At Intuit, What Comes After Taxes?, work=New York Times
, passage=We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load.}}
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(US) To provide an incentive for (something).
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As verbs the difference between motivate and incent
is that motivate is to provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage while incent is to provide an incentive to (a person or organization).motivate
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(motivat)Antonyms
* demotivateincent
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(en verb)- We need to incent people to innovate more.
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- We need to incent more innovation.