[Magdalen] New to Me.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Means: To give the person an incentive to perform some whatchamacallit

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree with, Jim. Incentivize is widely used in the business world.
> Personally I find it abhorrent, but to avoid using it generally requires
> more creative sentence structure than some business folks seem to be
> capable of.
>
> On Friday, October 16, 2015, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Marion Thompson
> >
> > Just now in a radio interview I heard a woman say that a certain action
> >> would 'incentivize' consumers to do something.
> >>
> >
> > That one's been around for some years -- and those of us who’ve worked in
> > business have run into it regularly.  But as Bethany Dumas (or perhaps
> her
> > horse) once posted on TOL, "English is a great language -- you can verb
> > anything."
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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>
> Christopher Hart
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