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A Tax Proposal Is Brought Out Again
By JONATHAN WEISMAN

President Obama, stymied for three years on his promise to end tax incentives that move jobs overseas, went back to the well on Tuesday night with tax proposals that he said would promote domestic corporate growth.

Definition of incentive in English:

noun

1A thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something:give farmers an incentive to improve their land

1.1A payment or concession to stimulate greater outputor investment:tax incentives for investing in depressed areas

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin incentivum 'something that sets the tune or incites', from incantare 'to chant or charm'.

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• Modern management gurus may not realize it, but when they advocate incentives they are invoking magic. The word is closely related to incantation(Late Middle English), ‘words said as a magic spell or charm’. The root of both is Latin incantare ‘to chant, charm’, from cantare ‘to sing’, the source also of chant (Late Middle English). In the general sense ‘a thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something’, incentive entered English in the Middle Ages, but it took until the 1940s for incentives to be offered to workers. The first incentive paymentswere proposed in early 1940 as a way to encourage US farmers to plant new crops. See also enchant

well[well2]

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[名]

1 井戸；（石油・天然ガスの）井

an oil ［a gas］ well
油［ガス］井

dig ［sink］ a well
井戸を掘る.

2 ((詩))泉；（水の）源；（感情・活動力などの）源泉, 源

a well of wisdom
知恵の泉.

3 井戸状の穴；くぼみ；（階段の）吹き抜け(stairwell)；（エレベーターの）縦穴；（万年筆の）筒(inkwell)；船底のいけす；（飛行機の）車輪室. ⇒COCKPIT 1

4 貯蔵油；（地雷の）井孔.

5 ((英))（法廷の）弁護士席.

go back to the well

信頼できる人［ところ］に戻る.

━━[動](自)〈水・感情などが〉わき出る, 噴出する((up, out, forth))

Tears welled up in the child's eyes.
子供の目に涙があふれた

Blood welled (forth) from the cut.
血が傷口から吹き出た.

━━(他)…をふき出す, わき出させる.

━━[形]井戸のような.