Carrot ˈkærət Stick Noun Grated Slice Cake Pound

• grated carrot
• a slice of carrot cake
• a pound of carrots
• a bag of baby carrots

carrot

1. a long pointed orange root vegetable
• grated carrot
• a slice of carrot cake
• a pound of carrots
• a bag of baby carrots
• a glass of carrot juice
• carrot sticks (= long thin pieces)
2. a reward promised to somebody in order to persuade them to do something
• SYNONYM incentive
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• They are holding out a carrot of $120 million in economic aid.
• It's a big carrot he's dangling in front of Marler's nose.

Extra Examples

• Even with the carrot of a free lunch it is unlikely that many people will turn up.
• In a market economy profits are the carrot that encourages firms to take risks.
3. if you use the carrot and stick approach, you persuade somebody to try harder by offering them a reward if they do, or a punishment if they do not
• The emphasis is on the carrot of incentive rather than the stick of taxes.

Extra Examples

• to adopt the carrot-and-stick approach
• He decided to use the carrot and stick approach.

Word Origin

• late 15th cent.: from French carotte, from Latin carota, from Greek karōton.