stick and carrot

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Alternative form of carrot and stick. (more common in UK than in US)
carrot and stick
Simultaneous rewards for good behavior and punishments for bad behavior
carrot-and-stick
Alternative spelling of carrot and stick
stick-and-carrot
Alternative form of carrot and stick. (more common in UK than in US)
carrot and stick
If an organization has a carrot and stick approach or policy, they offer people things in order to persuade them to do something and punish them if they refuse to do it. The government is proclaiming a carrot-and-stick approach to the problem
carrot-and-stick
(deyim) Carrot and stick (also spelled "carrot-and-stick") is an idiom used to refer to the act of rewarding good behavior and punishing bad behavior. The carrot represents the edible reward, while the stick refers to a punishing switch. The earliest citation of this expression recorded by the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary is to The Economist magazine in the December 11, 1948, issue. The Supplement also depicts a person trying to entice a donkey to move by dangling a carrot in front of it
carrot-and-stick
Characterized by the use of both reward and punishment to induce cooperation: "carrot-and-stick foreign policy"
the stick and the carrot
giving a prize for good behavior and a punishment for misbehavior (Psychology)
the stick and the carrot method
system of giving a prize for good behavior and a punishment for misbehavior (Psychology)
stick and carrot

    Hyphenation

    stick and car·rot

    Turkish pronunciation

    stîk ınd kärıt

    Pronunciation

    /ˈstək ənd ˈkarət/ /ˈstɪk ənd ˈkærət/
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