a positive motivational influence
an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output
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incentive
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]
Weary the path that does not challenge reason. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. [ Hosea Ballou ]
If you realize an incentive to do a good thing, an act of benevolence, do it at once; do not put it off until tomorrow. [ Henry Home ]
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life. [ Beecher ]
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