direct incentive
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandincentive
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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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 ofdirectandincentivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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An international donor could achieve a given conservation objective at a lower cost by providing adirectincentive.
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For this reason, payment methods to hospitals can be adirectincentiveto promote technology adoption.
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A donor could always achieve a given conservation objective at a lower cost by providing adirectincentive.
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As we noted above, challengers have adirectincentiveto uncover the malfeasance of incumbents because they increase their probability of winning office once the incumbent is discredited.
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In other words, it looks to me adirectincentiveto more inflation.
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Its omission would be adirectincentiveto misconduct, instead of being as it is now adirectincentiveto proper conduct.
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That is adirectincentiveto waste and extravagance.
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The abolition of exchange controls has been almost adirectincentivefor the export of capital.
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At the moment those responsible for running the hospitals have adirectincentiveto overbudget and to spend on unessentials.
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It is the only policy which provides the industry with adirectincentiveto compete with other modes.
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This is not adirectincentivepayment.
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It gives people adirectincentiveto invest in cars that are more fuel economic in the band that attracts lower vehicle excise duty.
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It would not be very much, but it would act as adirectincentiveto every local authority to employ a good architect.
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If that were done there would, of course, be adirectincentiveto economic building.
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Because of that it is adirectincentiveto the treatment of coal for conversion into oil.
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This legislation is adirectincentivefor the worst kind of employer.
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Suppliers will have adirectincentiveto seek the cheapest sources of supply from a wide variety of generators.
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This is adirectincentiveto employers to get rid of disabled people.
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That was adirectincentiveto employers of labour to reduce wages.
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There is adirectincentivefor authorities to contain their expenditure, because it enables them to reduce the burden on those who pay rates.
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