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dissuasion

noun as in determent

noun as in deterrence

noun as in expostulation

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People caught with drugs in Portugal aren’t sent to criminal courts, but they’re given a summons to go before a “drug dissuasion” group with a doctor, a social worker and a legal expert.

Instead, she said, the Scottish government should be focusing not just on harm reduction but also on treatment, prevention, dissuasion and reintegration of users into society.

From BBC

The dissuasion commissions that were supposed to encourage people to seek help no longer play much of a role.

District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, alleged a “campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander” that, Mr. Trump asserted, had escalated “as CNN fears the plaintiff will run for president in 2024.”

Initially, the employers countered the organizing campaigns with criticism of unions and other means of dissuasion.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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