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Carrot
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(carrots) 1. Carrots are long, thin, orange-coloured vegetables. They grow under the ground, and have green shoots above the ground. N-VAR 2. Something that is offered to people in order to persuade them to do something can be referred to as a carrot. Something that is meant to persuade people not to do something can be referred to in the same sentence as a ‘stick’. They will be set targets, with a carrot of extra cash and pay if they achieve them... Why the new emphasis on sticks instead of diplomatic carrots? = incentive N-COUNT see also carrot and stick
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noun Etymology: Middle French carotte, from Late Latin carota, from Greek karoton Date: 1533 1. a biennial herb (Daucus carota of the family Umbelliferae, the ~ family) with a usually orange spindle-shaped edible root; also its root 2. a reward or advantage offered especially as an inducement CARROT-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 ~ foreign policy ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a an umbelliferous plant, Daucus carota, with a tapering orange-coloured root. b this root as a vegetable. 2 a means of enticement or persuasion. 3 (in pl.) sl. a red-haired person. Derivatives carroty adj. Etymology: F carotte f. L carota f. Gk karoton ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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noun 1) морковь 2) pl.; coll. рыжие волосы; рыжеволосый человек; рыжий coll. 3) приманка, стимул the stick and the carrot policy - политика кнута и пряника ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 a plant with a long thick orange pointed root that you eat as a vegetable 2 informal something that is promised to someone in order to try and persuade them to work harder (carrot and stick approach/method etc (=a way of persuading someone to do something using a mixture of promises and threats)) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1533, from M.Fr. carrotte, from L. carota, from Gk. karoton "carrot," possibly from kara "head." Planted as a garden vegetable by 1609 by Jamestown colonists. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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