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idiom(the) carrot and (the) sticka way of making people do what you want by giving them something good if they do it, and making something bad happen to them if they do not do it:Most managers use both the carrot and the stick to make sure that the work gets done.If the fines for parking in the town centre are the stick, there must also be a carrot, and the best carrot is better car parks.carrot-and-stick: We favour a carrot-and-stick approach to get unemployed people back to work.
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