| 单词 | incentive |
| 释义 | incentive (ɪnsentɪv ) Word forms: incentives variable noun [oft NOUN to-infinitive] If something is an incentive to do something, it encourages you to do it. There is little or no incentive to adopt such measures. Many companies in Britain are keen on the idea of tax incentives for R&D. Synonyms: inducement, motive, encouragement, urge Collocations: added incentive The deal has the added incentive of a free valuation and legal fees. Times, Sunday Times (2008) His dad looking on from the stands was an added incentive. The Sun (2009) The fact that they can get Cypriot citizenship if they invest €5 million in the island is an added incentive. Times, Sunday Times (2015) And a number of car makers are offering additional incentives on top of the £2,000 off deal. The Sun (2009) The rise in energy prices will be an additional incentive to make changes. Times, Sunday Times (2008) There will be an additional incentive for England's six clubs to do well this weekend. Times, Sunday Times (2006) It's an extra incentive for me to do well. The Sun (2011) Car dealers become very creative in adding extra incentives to tempt buyers in March. The Sun (2012) If you need any extra incentive to give up smoking, how about the simple reason that there are far better uses for your car's cigarette lighter? Times, Sunday Times (2010) The management's incentive package pays out the most if the return on capital employed averages 15 per cent over the next three years. Times, Sunday Times With a 100 million incentive package dangling before them, the new management team certainly have sufficient carrots. Times, Sunday Times This incentive package will vest in two tranches in 2009 and 2010. Times, Sunday Times United will also offer an improved incentive package based on appearances and honours. The Sun Ministers were forced to offer the initial incentive package as a way to create urgently needed spaces in jails. Times, Sunday Times These are where you have received shares through your employer's save-as-you-earn sharesave scheme, or through a share incentive plan. Times, Sunday Times (2010) For the coming year it was increasing the amount payable under its longterm incentive plan by 100 per cent of basic salary while adjusting some performance measures. Times, Sunday Times (2016) More than 18 per cent of shareholders also voted against its long-term incentive plan at its annual general meeting yesterday. Times, Sunday Times (2015) An incentive system for academics in which people were professionally rewarded for the number of times their papers were cited was not helping, she said. Times, Sunday Times Build an incentive system and reward him for each mouthful. The Sun Success lies in the school's incentive system, which dispenses vouchers with points, to be collected and cashed in by pupils as the school sees fit. Times, Sunday Times Start an incentive system to get your son to try new foods. The Sun Then create an incentive system. The Sun Indeed, tougher times, which increase the incentive to keep old machines running rather than buy new ones, might even work in its favour. Times, Sunday Times Further, recent rises in milk and meat prices only increase the incentive to improve productivity. Times, Sunday Times That would increase the incentive to plead guilty while partly allaying concerns over soft sentences. Times, Sunday Times The information will be used to put pressure on the government to increase the incentives for developers to target brownfield sites instead of the countryside. Times, Sunday Times The intention would be to penalise banks for hoarding cash, hence increasing the incentive for them to lend, and thereby stimulate business investment. Times,Sunday Times It withdraws the investment incentive for large companies. Times, Sunday Times So expect modest investment incentives, notably an increase in the annual investment allowance. Times, Sunday Times It wants the replacement of the 'stick' of taxation with the 'carrot' of investment incentives. Times, Sunday Times Tax and investment incentives have also played a part. Times, Sunday Times It also lists changes to tax credits and investment incentives that should be made. Times, Sunday Times Short-term incentives as well as long-term incentives go a long way to help staff focus on their work. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Including long-term incentives, his total pay package could exceed £10m. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Petrol at £1.30 a litre may prove a better long-term incentive than the £5,000 subsidy now on offer from the Government. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The targets are accompanied by a matching management incentive scheme. Times, Sunday Times The benefit to the company comes from a potential improvement in its earnings per share, important in most long-term management incentive schemes, but of uncertain value to shareholders. Times, Sunday Times The performance-related payouts comprised an annual bonus as well as an award under a three-year rolling management incentive plan. Times, Sunday Times The founders often invest cash in the vehicle and own equity including preferred 'founder shares', which act as a form of management incentive, and warrants. Times, Sunday Times What are the negative results of giving management incentives and are there better ways of encouraging long-term performance? Times, Sunday Times Consider offering a monetary incentive to get customers to buy. Houston Chronicle This 'one nation' pension would be easy to explain and understand, giving everyone the same monetary incentive. Times, Sunday Times The top ten most visited website relies on user contribution - from creation to editing - for its content and gives no monetary incentive for this contribution. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Players may even place a bounty on another player's head, providing monetary incentive for bounty hunters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Objections described here include the programmer's need to make a living, the issue of advertising/distributing free software, and the perceived need for monetary incentive. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A central proposal was that councils be allowed to offer an incentive to vote. Times, Sunday Times If they have another job lined up, that may not be possible, but some compromise may be obtained if you, for example, offer an incentive to the employee. Times, Sunday Times Some councils offer an incentive to use reusable nappies. Times, Sunday Times The postal administration will typically offer an incentive in the form of a reduced price for precanceled stamps in volume. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This offers an incentive for buying a new car. Times, Sunday Times If the exercise price of options can be revised downwards, however, a well-meaning performance incentive transmogrifies into a reward for failure. Times, Sunday Times Organisations need a refreshed innovation-friendly framework for leadership, governance and the management of risk - and positive performance incentives instead of negative performance management. Times, Sunday Times There are no performance incentives at all, not even over the seven-year time horizon. Times, Sunday Times Options are performance incentives that allow employees to buy shares and resell them at a profit if the company's stock rises. Globe and Mail He has an annual guaranteed pay increase of $100,000 along with retention bonuses, plus performance incentives each year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That's a perverse incentive embedded in many policies. Christianity Today At the same time the perverse incentive for schools to exclude pupils in order to boost examination results should be removed. Times, Sunday Times Unfortunately, as we heard one witness after another, it became clear that huge bonuses were a perverse incentive to act in ways that, if not illegal, are borderline immoral. Times, Sunday Times Worse, it introduces a perverse incentive for many 0845 or 0870 service providers to save on the provision of call-centre staff and encourage the formation of a long queue. Times, Sunday Times It warns that it could also lead to a perverse incentive for those covered by the duty to 'pass the buck'. Times, Sunday Times Young people who used to buy older homes, including 'doer-uppers', now have a powerful incentive to buy new. Times, Sunday Times The risk of prison, coupled with the risk of personal financial ruin, would be a powerful incentive for better behaviour, he added. Times, Sunday Times Insurers had a 'powerful incentive to reduce damages awards and cut out legal representation wherever possible'. Times, Sunday Times It would also act as a powerful incentive to the elite universities to broaden their intake. Times, Sunday Times Money can be a powerful incentive but it can also corrupt those who should know better. Times, Sunday Times This has been credited with helping to provide an incentive for development, avoiding the obstacles faced by companies hoping to frack for shale gas. Times, Sunday Times These tricks will give your pad the wow factor - each for less than 50 - and will provide the incentive needed to tempt potential buyers. Times, Sunday Times One can only hope that consumers’ growing curiosity will someday soon provide the incentive for answering these questions. Smithsonian Mag That would avoid the risks created by the proposed changes and would provide some incentive to carry out routine maintenance works. Times, Sunday Times It might provide that incentive, that little extra push, at the margin and help to establish the norm. Times, Sunday Times Operators have resisted the change previously on the ground that it would reduce the incentive to put up phone masts in areas of low population. Times, Sunday Times He says it will 'reduce the incentive for the first earner in a family to enter work'. Times, Sunday Times Provide people with a source of cash for which they don't need to do anything, and you reduce their incentive to do anything. Times, Sunday Times The corporate tax rate will be cut from 35% to 15% to reduce the incentive to move to lower-tax countries. Times, Sunday Times That alone would create a problem by making it less attractive for businesses to invest, and reduce the incentive of people to work hard. Times, Sunday Times This will remove the incentive for agencies to compete on how positive an approach they might take. Times, Sunday Times Even the knowledge that we could cool the planet with aerosols, some argue, would remove the incentive to decarbonize. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The intention was to remove any incentive for experts to recommend unnecessary treatment. Times, Sunday Times Remove the incentive and the propensity to build basements will diminish. Times, Sunday Times He said the changes meant that the tax credit system and universal credit would remove the incentive to work. Times, Sunday Times This also gives suppliers a strong incentive to maximise sales to earn a decent return. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Businesses have a strong incentive not to waste money on executive pay unless it benefits them. Times, Sunday Times (2016) But the prospect of facing their old foes will certainly be a strong incentive. The Sun (2012) Yet, at the same time, the fact that we are in a recession makes it even more imperative that management teams have sufficient incentive. Times, Sunday Times The take-up for the shared parental leave scheme falls short because prospective applicants do not regard it as a sufficient incentive to risk either salary or goodwill. Times, Sunday Times It was sufficient incentive for him to seek leave from his commentary and punditry duties and fly to a city that speaks of little but horses this week. Times, Sunday Times Employees obviously need sufficient incentive, but they are not 'entitled' to a percentage of anything. Times, Sunday Times The committee considers this too low to give power companies sufficient incentive to invest in renewable energy. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 激励 Japanese: 奨励 |
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