Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to incent
Participle: incented
Gerund: incenting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | incent |
| you | incent |
| he;she;it | incents |
| we | incent |
| you | incent |
| they | incent |
Perfect
| I | have incented |
| you | have incented |
| he;she;it | has incented |
| we | have incented |
| you | have incented |
| they | have incented |
Past
| I | incented |
| you | incented |
| he;she;it | incented |
| we | incented |
| you | incented |
| they | incented |
Pluperfect
| I | had incented |
| you | had incented |
| he;she;it | had incented |
| we | had incented |
| you | had incented |
| they | had incented |
Future
| I | will incent |
| you | will incent |
| he;she;it | will incent |
| we | will incent |
| you | will incent |
| they | will incent |
Future Perfect
| I | will have incented |
| you | will have incented |
| he;she;it | will have incented |
| we | will have incented |
| you | will have incented |
| they | will have incented |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | incent |
| you | incent |
| he;she;it | incent |
| we | incent |
| you | incent |
| they | incent |
Perfect
| I | have incented |
| you | have incented |
| he;she;it | have incented |
| we | have incented |
| you | have incented |
| they | have incented |
Imperfect
| I | incented |
| you | incented |
| he;she;it | incented |
| we | incented |
| you | incented |
| they | incented |
Pluperfect
| I | had incented |
| you | had incented |
| he;she;it | had incented |
| we | had incented |
| you | had incented |
| they | had incented |
Conditional
Present
| I | would incent |
| you | would incent |
| he;she;it | would incent |
| we | would incent |
| you | would incent |
| they | would incent |
Perfect
| I | would have incented |
| you | would have incented |
| he;she;it | would have incented |
| we | would have incented |
| you | would have incented |
| they | would have incented |
Imperative
| you | incent |
| we | Let's incent |
| you | incent |
Verbs conjugated like 'incent'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'incent'
incant,
incend,
incept,
incest,
indent,
invent,
accent,
encunt,
icen,
inbend,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Back-formation from incentive. Clipping of incentivize
Sample Sentences
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We need to incent people to innovate more.
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We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load. [2007 February 24, Damon Darlin, “At Intuit, What Comes After Taxes?”, in New York Times:]
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HUD programs to incent owners to maintain affordable housing units have preserved over 3,500 projects with about 300,000 units. [2009 July 15, Shelley Moore Capito, Legislative Options for Preserving Federally- and State-assisted Affordable Housing and Preventing Displacement of Low-income, Elderly, and Disabled Tenants, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, page 4:]
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incent investors to manage assets with a long-term perspective [2010 June 24, Al Gore, David Blood, “Toward Sustainable Capitalism”, in Wall Street Journal:]
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Whether it’s a sense of companionship or the promise of elicit conversations that border on phone sex, users are incented to grow closer and closer to their avatar (and, ultimately, to buy a physical body for them, something Jackie hinted at on a couple of occasions). [2017 August 17, Ry Crist, “Dawn of the sexbots”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), CNET:]
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We need to incent more innovation.
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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 [2009 January 13, Arne Duncan, “Duncan Lays Out Positions in Confirmation Hearing”, in WBEZ Chicago Public Radio:]