incentive

In a sentence

Six example sentences with incentive, each labelled with its topic.

• The city gave cyclists a cash incentive, and within a year twice as many commuters were riding to work.

  Economics

• Sales staff kept the same salary, but a new incentive paid extra for every contract renewed past two years.

  Business

• The daily login reward is a small incentive, enough to bring most players back before breakfast.

  Gaming

• A tax break on retirement savings is an incentive to put money away, and contributions rose the year it passed.

  Finance

• The gym offers a small incentive, a free month for anyone who checks in twenty times before the end of March.

  Fitness

• Praise turned out to be a stronger incentive than money for the volunteers, who worked longer when a supervisor noticed.

  Psychology

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