monetary incentive

collocation in English

meaningsofmonetaryandincentive

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monetary
adjective
uk
/ˈmʌn.ɪ.tri/us
/ˈmɑː.nə.ter.i/
finance & economics
relating to the money in ...
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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 ofmonetaryandincentivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmonetary incentive

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Older couples with already large families, who are less able or willing to have more children, may need littlemonetaryincentivenot to have children.
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The invitation included a $50monetaryincentive.
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There is nomonetaryincentivefor the higher-paid earners in industry and commerce.
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I should prefer to see them outside the arena of themonetaryincentive.
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What was the effect of that great financial andmonetaryincentiveon our export trade?
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This is the first time that a directmonetaryincentivefor this work has been given.
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It is a poor philosophy to say that people do things only because ofmonetaryincentive.
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There are elements in the country on both sides who are not disposed to pull their full weight unless they are provided with amonetaryincentive.
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We must also start to give the junior secondary schools a much fairer share of the teachers, using eithermonetaryincentiveor a slightly more rigid quota system.
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The top ten most visited website relies on user contribution - from creation to editing - for its content and gives nomonetaryincentivefor this contribution.
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Objections described here include the programmer's need to make a living, the issue of advertising/distributing free software, and the perceived need formonetaryincentive.
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Players have littlemonetaryincentiveto play in exhibitions, since they are paid only a training-camp per diem for these games.
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Players may even place a bounty on another player's head, providingmonetaryincentivefor bounty hunters.
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Being a volunteer run organization, it relies on cultural/social bonds and enthusiasm from participants for support and staffing rather thanmonetaryincentive.
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But, with little fear of unemployment and littlemonetaryincentiveto work harder, individual workers were still able to resist management interference.
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Monetary incentives do not completely "crowd out" the subject's motive to please, but they are likely to attenuate this motive considerably.
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Even here, relying exclusively on purely monetary incentives would miss some important phenomena.
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State support, itself based primarily on the need to maintain monetary incentives, rather than to compensate for inequalities ensures that these differences are perpetuated.
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We argue that monetary incentives can yield a number of unintended effects including distortions of the subjective representation of the task and impaired performance.
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A total ban on cigarettes in the workplace coupled with monetary incentives to quit has been shown to improve cessation rates substantially.
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