Definition of disincentivize in English:
disincentivize
(British disincentivise)
verbdɪsɪnˈsɛntɪvʌɪzˌdisinˈsen(t)ivīz
[with object]Discourage (a person or course of action) by removing an incentive.
such policies disincentivize those on average incomes
Example sentencesExamples
- But the resilient design helps to disincentivize terrorism, by reducing its rewards.
- The greatest risk of all is that such policies demotivate and disincentivise those on average incomes or above.
- It made little sense to disincentivise students from going to college.
- The success of the last decade has been to stop our public prices, disincentivising people to mail in Dundalk instead of Newry.
- People work long hours, or have long commutes that disincentivise going to a polling station.
- No - but this bill will disincentivise those parents.
- Many of these taxes disincentivise the economy as a whole.
- Won't greater spending simply raise the interest rate, disincentivise private investment and increase the burden of indebted families?
- I don't see how in a declining market we can disincentivise their walking away.
- They find themselves rejected by the university of their choice: an object lesson in how to disincentivise them for later life.
- They reflect successive governments' policy preference for rationing demand while disincentivising the private sector.
- We should be incentivising and not disincentivising those parents who need to be paying.