disincentive

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Urging & persuading
ambulance-chasing
argumentation
badger
be/go on at someoneidiom
blag
blagger
get (something) through (to someone)
go on
hortatory
hustle
incitation
incitement
jockey
sucker
sway
uncoerced
unconvinced
unpersuaded
unpersuasive
unsalable

inducement | Business English

inducement
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ɪnˈdjuːsmənt/us
an act or a thing that is intended to make something happen or to persuade someone to do something:
inducement (for sb) to do sthThey offered him a large pay increase as an inducement for him to stay.
It is illegal for American companies to offer inducements when tendering for contracts abroad.
Customers are coming to us without inducement.
financial/cash inducements

Examples of inducement

inducement
As an inducement to work, their daily intake of water was restricted to that earned as reward for successful completion of fixation trials.
How particular producers or unions are 'sold' on the compromise may involve combinations of inducements, force or persuasion from the state or corporatist actors.
The financial inducement is clearly intended to produce exits from employment in order to restructure the workforce.
Additionally, the individual should not be subject to coercion or vulnerable to inducements so that they are unduly influenced.
No financial or other inducements were offered to the women who agreed to blood sampling of their own volition.
Many left because of the inducements, some because they had financial commitments, such as a mortgage or dependent children, that the package solved.
Some wondered whether financial inducements had influenced the decision to move ahead with these studies with less caution than was appropriate.
This was a powerful inducement for good conduct.
Such inducements may not be sufficient, however, if they are outweighed by the benefits of exile.
This point distinguishes the current model from previous induced innovation models since it explicitly shows where the inducement for new technologies and inventions comes from.
Over the centuries, investors have plunged incorrigibly into exotic opportunities where distance and the lack of reliable information have appeared positive inducements.
On the other hand, vertical coordination may result in inducements to adopt environmentally friendly processes in order to get premium prices.
Here the local authority stepped in itself as real estate entrepreneur, and also had to offer larger inducements to the companies.
The final outcome of expenditure rather than the initial inducement to spend was of greater significance at this stage.
It is argued that decisions about early retirement are not made in a vacuum, neither are they free from pressures or inducements.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.