disincentive
Example Sentences
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The key to "making work pay" was to remove the disincentive in the existing welfare system to take a job.
From BBC
But they also found that people who received $1,000 put in fewer hours on the job than people who received $50, suggesting that the higher payments provided a disincentive to work.
To do this, we must remove the disincentives that keep smaller companies from going public:
For many artists, this is another disincentive to recording a protest song.
The administration is considering a “carrot-and-sticks” approach to home builders, focusing on incentives and disincentives.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
