transitive verb

• Discourage (a person or course of action) by removing an incentive.

  ‘would such legislation disincentivize marriage?’

  More example sentences

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