Another word for incentive
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Noun
Something that causes and encourages a given response
- Something causing or regarded as causing a response.
- An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response.
- Something that incites or rouses to action; an incentive:
- A person, device or substance that stimulates.
- An agent, especially a chemical agent such as caffeine, that temporarily arouses or accelerates physiological or organic activity.
- A stimulus or an incentive:
- A food or drink, especially an alcoholic drink, believed to have a stimulating effect.
- A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.
- An incentive:
- A spinelike process on the leg of some birds.
- To apply pressure against (something), especially for the purpose of moving it:
- To move (something) by exerting force against it; thrust or shove:
- To exert downward pressure on (a button or keyboard, for example); press.
- To jab or poke, as with a pointed object.
- To goad to action; incite.
- A pointed object used to prod:
- The act or process of motivating:
- The state of being motivated:
- Something that motivates; an inducement, reason, or goal:
- Something that helps bring about an action or a desired result; an incentive:
- The act or process of inducing:
- Misrepresentation that leads a person to enter into a contract or transaction with a false understanding of the risks and obligations:
- An impelling force; an impetus.
- The motion produced by such a force.
- A sudden wish or urge that prompts an unpremeditated act or feeling; an abrupt inclination:
- An impelling force; an impulse.
- The force or energy associated with a moving body.
- Something that incites; a stimulus.
- A snap or light blow made by pressing a fingertip against the thumb and suddenly releasing it.
- Something that excites or stimulates:
- To strike or propel rapidly by a fillip:
- The act of encouraging.
- The state of being encouraged.
- One that encourages.
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- A biennial Eurasian plant (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) in the parsley family, widely cultivated as an annual for its edible taproot.
- The usually tapering, elongate, fleshy orange root of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
- Queen Anne's lace.
- A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.
- The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; especially to evil or wickedness.
- The act of encouraging.
- The state of being encouraged.
- One that encourages.
- The act or an instance of exhorting.
- A speech or discourse that encourages, incites, or earnestly advises.
- The excitement of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity:
- The condition of being so excited:
- The quality of being so excited, as manifested in something:
- The act of persuading or the state of being persuaded:
- The ability or power to persuade:
- A strongly held opinion; a conviction:
- Attractiveness; appeal, charisma. [from 16th c.]
- An enticement, inducement or bait. [from 16th c.]
- Something offered to allure or attract; an inducement, especially to buy.
- A sexual or romantic approach or proposal.
- Something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward:
- An attraction or appeal:
- A decoy used in catching animals, especially an artificial bait used in catching fish.
- A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, especially one that operates without any direct or apparent effort:
- Power to sway or affect based on prestige, wealth, ability, or position:
- A person who exerts such power:
- An impelling force; an impetus.
- The motion produced by such a force.
- A sudden wish or urge that prompts an unpremeditated act or feeling; an abrupt inclination:
- To force or drive forward or onward; impel.
- To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort.
- To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for:
- To strike with a strap or rod; lash:
- To afflict, castigate, or reprove severely:
- To strike or affect in a manner similar to whipping or lashing:
- To jab or poke, as with a pointed object.
- To goad to action; incite.
- A pointed object used to prod:
- A long stick with a pointed end used for prodding animals.
- An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus.
- To prod or urge with or as if with a long pointed stick.
- The fundamental reasons for something; the basis:
- To make allowance for; overlook or forgive:
- To grant pardon to; forgive:
- To apologize for (oneself) for an act that could cause offense:
- Determinative.
- An influencing or determining element or factor:
- The value computed from a square matrix of numbers by a rule of combining products of the matrix entries and that characterizes the solvablitity of simultaneous linear equations. Its absolute value can be interpreted as an area or volume.
- Careful thought; deliberation:
- A result of considering; an opinion or a judgment:
- A factor to be considered in forming a judgment or decision:
- Food or other lure placed on a hook or in a trap and used in the taking of fish, birds, or other animals.
- Something, such as a worm, used for this purpose.
- An enticement, temptation, or provocation:
- The act of tempting or the condition of being tempted.
- Something tempting or enticing.
- The act of provoking or inciting.
- Something that provokes.
- The solid surface of the earth.
- The floor of a body of water, especially the sea.
- Soil; earth:
- A substance, usually used in small amounts relative to the reactants, that modifies and increases the rate of a reaction without being consumed in the process.
- One that precipitates a process or event, especially without being involved in or changed by the consequences:
- An impelling force; an impulse.
- The force or energy associated with a moving body.
- Something that incites; a stimulus.
- To move upward or forward in a single quick motion or a series of such motions; leap:
- To move suddenly, especially because of being resilient or moved by a spring:
- To start doing something suddenly:
- Something causing or regarded as causing a response.
- An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response.
- Something that incites or rouses to action; an incentive:
- An emotion, desire, physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action.
- A motif in art, literature, or music.
- Causing or able to cause motion:
- The act or process of motivating:
- The state of being motivated:
- Something that motivates; an inducement, reason, or goal:
- Something that helps bring about an action or a desired result; an incentive:
- The act or process of inducing:
- Misrepresentation that leads a person to enter into a contract or transaction with a false understanding of the risks and obligations:
- A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.
- An incentive:
- A spinelike process on the leg of some birds.
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