incent

1. (transitive, US) To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).Examples: "We need to incent people to innovate more."; "We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load."; "HUD programs to incent owners to maintain affordable housing units have preserved over 3,500 projects with about 300,000 units."UStransitive

2. (transitive, US) To provide an incentive for (something).Examples: "We need to incent more innovation."; "DUNCAN: The more we can reward excellence, the more we can incent excellence, the more we can get our best teachers to work in those hard to staff schools"UStransitive