inducement

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Discouraging and putting off
aversive
dampen someone's enthusiasm
dampen someone's spirits
dampener on something
daunt
deter
deterrence
deterrent
discourage
discouragement
dishearten
disheartening
dishearteningly
emasculate
emasculation
pour/throw cold water on somethingidiom
spoke
take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom
throw cold water on somethingidiom
unencouraging

disincentive | Business English

disincentive
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌdɪsɪnˈsentɪv/ us /-ṱɪv/
something that makes a person or organization less willing to do something:
A culture of corruption is a disincentive to investment and trade.
serve as/act as a disincentiveHigh severance costs can act as a disincentive to hire new workers.
a disincentive (for sb) to do sthThe tax on large pensions could be a disincentive to save for retirement.
a disincentive to doing sthWorking on a fixed-fee basis is a disincentive to agreeing to act for certain clients.
a major/strong/powerful disincentive
create/provide a disincentivePrices send signals to producers telling them what to supply, while taxes create disincentives.

Examples of disincentive

disincentive
The 1859 law allowed the registration of haciendas and labour contracts, but the $.10 per contract charge acted as a disincentive to the system's use.
This is such a disincentive to early elections that none have been called since the implementation of the 1975 constitution.
A reward or punishment, unlike an incentive or disincentive, is understood to be merited or deserved.
Negligent mistakes can be penalized as lesser included public-welfare offences with monetary disincentives.
Alienation of a large share of agricultural produce from the real cultivator acted as disincentive for the producer.
It might be imagined that explicit disincentives could also be used to motivate workers.
There will be a clear disincentive to convert financial wealth into annuity income as the former will not be means tested while the latter will.
To highlight the effect of disincentives, they play two games that are identical except that one allows employers to punish workers for shirking.
In other words, the increased capacity of the resources to sustain populations works as a disincentive to migrate.
Yet, as there is for mental health benefits (5), adverse selection may create a disincentive for plans to provide state-of-the-art consumer health information.
Policy-makers need to consider how to remove this disincentive to repartnering, which is inherent in any means-tested benefits system based on household income.
Electoral rules are thought to influence political attitudes and behaviour by offering incentives or disincentives to vote.
In current procedureoriented billing and payment coding systems, there are financial disincentives to talking with patients.
The enormity of the consequences ensured that even a small chance of death was a major disincentive to further involvement.
Recent reforms have addressed this disincentive to work, even though it is too early to assess its effects on labor supply.
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