Metaphor for an incentive Crossword Clue Answer

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Question: Metaphor for an incentive

Solution: BAIT

BAIT Definition 1:
Something (such as a piece of food) that is used to attract fish or animals so they can be caught noncount count often used figuratively .
Examples:
We always use live bait [=worms that are alive] when we fish.
Cheese used for/as bait in mousetraps
Wait until the fish takes the bait.
A wide selection of lures and baits
Using bargains as bait for shoppers [=using bargains to attract shoppers]
The police waited for the bank robbers to take the bait. [=to be tricked into doing the thing that would cause them to be trapped or caught]
(chiefly Brit) The interviewer kept asking the politician whether he was lying, and he rose to the bait by getting angry.

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