sufficient incentive

collocation in English

meaningsofsufficientandincentive

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sufficient
adjective
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/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/us
/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/
enough for a ...
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incentive
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈsen.tɪv/us
/ɪnˈsen.t̬ɪv/
something that encourages a person to ...
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(Definition ofsufficientandincentivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the decentralized economy, the rent for living space is no longer asufficientincentivefor households to locate at the optimal positions.
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The removal of coverage is usually asufficientincentivemechanism to contain any further use, at least on a widespread basis.
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A change in local authority pricing, contracting or strategic planning might not be asufficientincentive to persuade such providers to preserve existing services or to establish new ones.
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Barrett (1991), however, does point out that the severity of the potential impacts of ozone depletion seems to suggest that individual countries do havesufficientincentiveto act unilaterally.
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However, we must also ensure that there issufficientincentivefor site owners to continue their role.
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He thinks that they will not be givensufficientincentive, but there we must differ; we think they will.
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They did not affordsufficientincentiveto individual men or to individual districts.
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Notsufficientincentiveis being provided to get men to go for the highest possible qualifications.
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Of course the calf subsidy is an encouragement, but it does not givesufficientincentiveto increase breeding herds.
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At present there is not asufficientincentive.
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Some of them are saying that as it is it does not give manufacturerssufficientincentive.
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Industry will need a greater market to havesufficientincentiveto provide that.
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Paradoxically, high interest rates by themselves do not provide asufficientincentiveto save.
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The review does not givesufficientincentiveto achieve that aim.
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That will besufficientincentiveto the charge-payers and to the local authorities to maximise collection.
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He asked whether there will besufficientincentivefor the shipping industry to reinvest when the recession comes to an end.
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That alone should besufficientincentiveto treat the question of living standards more fully.
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I have told the brickmakers that the need for building is so great that they havesufficientincentiveto make the necessary investment.
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When it is a question of providing houses there issufficientincentiveto the authorities tackling that which otherwise would never be tackled at all.
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Short-termism leads to the search for a quick return rather than to long-term planning, and there is notsufficientincentivefor plant investment.
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