Incentive and Need

Incentive

Incentive noun - Something that arouses action or activity.

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Need and incentive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Need" instead a noun "Incentive".

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Incentive and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Incentive" instead a noun "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

old	old incentive	old need
good	good incentive	good need
particular	particular incentive	particular need
single	single incentive	single need
Other adjectives: obvious, strong, powerful, actual, real, big, increased, great, serious, huge, little, personal, secret, psychological, possible, less, further, greater, occasional.

Cole is already being blackmailed by Vargas: he doesn't need extra incentive to lift the jewels.

Source: Series / Sunset Beach
In Penelope, the titular character's parents are seeking this type, as they need to marry her off to a blue-blood to break her curse of pig-nosedness, but need one poor enough that a sizable dowry is incentive enough to marry a girl with a pig nose.

Source: Impoverished Patrician
This also explains why Sauron's forces fight the Armies of Men outside the Black Gate, whereas in the film Sauron seems to be doing out of a need to defend his reputation rather than any material incentive.

Source: Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole

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