This week’s theme
Back-formations

This week’s words
lase
ablute
insurrect
incent
tase

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(in-SENT)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To provide a reward or benefit to induce action.

ETYMOLOGY:

Back-formation from incentive, from incinere (to strike a tune), from in- (intensive prefix) + canere (to sing). Earliest documented use: 1844.

USAGE:

“You have households that don’t want to borrow, that can’t be incented to borrow because rates can’t be pushed much lower.”
Not So Broken; The Economist (London, UK); Oct 4, 2012.

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