Definition of incentive

• a. - Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
• a. - Serving to kindle or set on fire.
• n. - That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.