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1carrot and stick — Incentive and punishment, as alternative methods of persuasion • • • Main Entry: ↑carrot carrot and stick see under ↑carrot • • • Main Entry: ↑stick * * * carrot and stick phrase a mixture of promises and threats to persuade someone to do… …
2carrot and stick — If someone offers a carrot and stick, they offer an incentive to do something combined with the threat of punishment …
3carrot and stick — If someone offers a carrot and stick, they offer an incentive to do something combined with the threat of punishment. (Dorking School Dictionary) *** If you use a carrot and stick approach, you use the promise of reward and the threat… …
4carrot-and-stick — adjective Etymology: from the traditional alternatives of driving a donkey on by either holding out a carrot or whipping it with a stick Date: 1876 characterized by the use of both reward and punishment to induce cooperation < carrot and stick… …
5carrot-and-stick — car·rot and stick (kărʹət ən stĭkʹ) adj. Combining a promised reward with a threatened penalty: took a carrot and stick approach to the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. * * * …
6Carrot and stick — If someone offers a carrot and stick, they offer an incentive to do something combined with the threat of punishment …
7Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! — Infobox comics organization name=The Zoo Crew imagesize= caption=Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew,art by Scott Shaw publisher=DC Comics debut= New Teen Titans #16, February 1982 creators=Roy Thomas Scott Shaw! base=Follywood, Califurnia (Earth C s …
8carrot — [kar′ət] n. [MFr carotte < L carota < Gr karōton, carrot; akin to kara, head: see HORN] 1. a biennial plant (Daucus carota) of the umbel family, with fernlike leaves and compound umbels of white flowers, usually with one red flower in the… …
9stick — stick1 W3S3 [stık] v past tense and past participle stuck [stʌk] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(attach)¦ 2¦(push in)¦ 3¦(put)¦ 4¦(move part of body)¦ 5¦(difficult to move)¦ 6 stick in somebody s mind 7 make something stick 8¦(name)¦ 9 somebody c …
10Carrot — This article is about the cultivated vegetable. For other uses, see Carrot (disambiguation). Carrot …
