Usually means: Motivation or reward for action.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. incentive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. incentive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incentive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incentive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incentive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incentive, incentive: Wordnik
  7. incentive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incentive: Wiktionary
  9. incentive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. incentive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. incentive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Incentive, incentive: Dictionary.com
  13. incentive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. incentive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Incentive (disambiguation), Incentive, The Incentive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Incentive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. incentive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. incentive: Rhymezone
  19. incentive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. incentive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. incentive: Free Dictionary
  22. incentive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. incentive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Incentive: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  5. incentive: Legal dictionary
  6. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Incentive: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. incentive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Game Theory Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incentive: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  2. INCENTIVE: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
noun:  A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
adjective:  Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
adjective:  Serving to kindle or set on fire.

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