Usually means: Incentives and punishments to influence.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. carrot-and-stick: Merriam-Webster
  2. carrot-and-stick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carrot-and-stick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carrot and stick: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carrot and stick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. carrot-and-stick, carrot and stick: Wiktionary
  7. carrot-and-stick: Dictionary.com
  8. Carrot-and-stick, Carrot and stick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Carrot and Stick: The Word Detective
  10. carrot-and-stick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Carrot and stick: World Wide Words
  12. carrot and stick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carrot-and-stick: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (carrot and stick)

noun:  (idiomatic) The simultaneous rewarding of good behavior and punishing of bad behavior.

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