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What is the grammatically correct word from incentive? Incent? Incentivize? Help
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Do you mean the verb form?
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I found 'incentivise" in over a dozen sites, but no clue as to its acceptability.
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neither can be found in OED2+; both have been accepted by AHD4 (and are very recent coinages). take your pick.
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Why not just "provide an incentive" or something like that rather than verbing the noun?
I'm just askin'...
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oops... by take your pick I meant "accept or don't."
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ewww, incentivise has no beauty...
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Dear etaoin: Suppose it was achieved by gift of a rarely seen portrait of a dead president?
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Suppose it was achieved by gift of a rarely seen portrait of a dead president?
I don't Bill, I don't find http://makeashorterlink.com/?F6CB46172any sort of incentive at all.
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sorry, you guys lost me on this one. I'm going to bed... 
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