CARROT-AND-STICK


Meaning of CARROT-AND-STICK in English

[car.rot-and-stick] adj [fr. the traditional alternatives of driving a donkey on by either holding out a carrot or whipping it with a stick] (1951): characterized by the use of both reward and punishment to induce cooperation "~ foreign policy"

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