carrot
/ˈkær·ət/ n [C] (REWARD)Definition
› something that is offered to someone in order to encourage that person to do something: If they finished the construction ahead of schedule, they were offered the carrot of a bonus.
(Definition of carrot n (REWARD) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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