carrot
[noun]
Synonyms: reward, dividend, guerdon, meed, plum, premium, prize

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

car‧rot S3 /ˈkærət/ noun
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: carotte, from Late Latin, from Greek karoton]

1. [uncountable and countable] a long pointed orange vegetable that grows under the ground:
grated carrots
carrot juice

2. [countable] informal something that is offered to someone in order to try and persuade them to do something:
They have refused to sign the agreement despite a carrot of £140 million.

3. carrot and stick informal a way of trying to persuade someone to do something by offering them something good if they do it, and a punishment if they do not:
the government’s carrot and stick approach in getting young people to find jobs

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

carrot
noun
I. vegetable
ADJ. raw | baby | diced, grated
VERB + CARROT eat, have | cook, prepare | peel, scrape | chop, dice, grate
CARROT + NOUN top | cake | juice
 ⇒ Special page at FOOD

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

carrot
II. sth attractive offered to sb
VERB + CARROT dangle, hold out, offer (sb) They dangled the carrot of a large salary in front of me.
PHRASES a carrot and stick to adopt the carrot-and-stick approach (= to persuade sb to try harder by offering them a reward if they do, or a punishment if they do not)

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲