Collocations for encourage - verb

greatly, highly (AmE), strongly
We were greatly encouraged by the support we received.
Speaking your mind is highly encouraged at these sessions.

especially, particularly
She especially encouraged young scientists.

actively, positively
The government must actively encourage investment in these areas.

deliberately, explicitly, openly
inadvertently, unwittingly

aim to, try to, want to
be designed to
These questions are designed to encourage debate.

be likely to
Newspapers should not publish material that is likely to encourage discrimination.

in
Her head of department encouraged her in her research work.

an attempt to encourage sth, an effort to encourage sth

Encourage is used with these nouns as the object:
aggression, awareness, belief, bloom, competition, confidence, consumption, conversation, cooperation, creation, creativity, debate, development, dialogue, discussion, diversity, emergence, engagement, enquiry, enterprise, establishment, expansion, export, flexibility, flow, growth, idea, immigrant, immigration, improvement, independence, industry, initiative, innovation, integration, investment, investor, move, participation, partnership, practice, production, reflection, reform, reliance, research, shopper, speculation, spread, student, submission, teamwork, thinking, tourism, use, value, violence, wildlife