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单词 disincentive
释义

disincentive

/dɪsɪnˈsɛntɪv /
noun
A factor, especially a financial disadvantage, that discourages a particular action: spiralling house prices are beginning to act as a disincentive to development...
  • Recent government regulations in the United States have provided financial disincentives to discourage the ordering of chemistry panels that contain calcium.
  • There will be more financial barriers and disincentives to accessible care.
  • Many lecturers, faced with such discouragement and manifest disincentives, succumb to the pressure and base their assessment of students solely on tasks such as essays.

Synonyms

deterrent, discouragement, dissuasion, damper, brake, curb, check, restraint, inhibition;
obstacle, impediment, hindrance, obstruction, block, barrier
adjective
Tending to discourage: higher taxes have major disincentive effects on work effort...
  • Licence duties tend to have very small disincentive effects on car ownership due to their relatively low level (they are primarily put in place by governments to raise revenue).
  • With progressive tax systems, such disincentive effects can be significant to secondary earners, but much less so to primary earners, as most economists now agree.
  • West European countries that have embraced high levels of social spending choose taxes that have relatively small deadweight losses and pay attention to disincentive effects.
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