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I best remember 'incentivize*' from a company meeting a couple of gigs
back, where they were talking about how to 'incentivize' their
employees.
I recall thinking at the time that paying us the three months of back
pay they owed us might have been a start...
S.
*Of course, over here we'd spell it 'incentivise'
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Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author
exony
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>Sent: 05 October 2006 19:53
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>Subject: Re: Weird words
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>My last gig was as a software trainer in a Marketing Department at
>Microsoft. You can't beat people in Marketing for making up words. I
tried
>really hard to forget most of them, but the one I can't seem to shake
is
>"incentivize" as in "We're going to incentivize the customer by giving
them
>a 50% cost reduction on their monthly license."
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