disincentives in English

noun

1

a factor, especially a financial disadvantage, that tends to discourage people from doing something.

spiraling house prices are beginning to act as a disincentive to development

synonyms: deterrent, discouragement, damper, brake, curb, check, restraint, inhibitor, obstacle, impediment, hindrance, obstruction, block, barrier

noun

• deterrent, discouragement, damper, brake, curb, check, restraint, inhibitor, obstacle, impediment, hindrance, obstruction, block, barrier
• deterrence

Use "disincentives" in a sentence

1. That can't keep going on, because economic incentives and disincentives are very powerful.

2. With so many weapons to hand, some cancel out others in a tangled web of incentives and disincentives.

3. Economic incentives or disincentives such as pollutant emission charges or taxes should receive more attention than they had received previously.

4. Removing remaining disincentives would further contribute to raising labour supply and make human capital allocation more efficient.

5. Lack of disincentives: Fishers do not have alternatives to substitute for the humphead wrasse, due to its value.

6. It is also conceivable that certain social expenditures and tax policies may have created disincentives for civic-minded philanthropy.

7. Pension Backloading, Wage Taxes, and Work Disincentives 163 1.1 Government Concern with Pension Backloading and the Labor Supply of the Aged Over the past two decades the government has been concerned with the Backloading (delaying) of the accrual of vested pension benefits