disincentivize
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From disincentive + -ize or dis- + incentivize.
Verb
[edit]disincentivize (third-person singular simple present disincentivizes, present participle disincentivizing, simple past and past participle disincentivized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (transitive) To discourage or demotivate by means of a disincentive.
- Synonym: deincentivize
- Antonym: incentivize
- 2018 October 12, aabicus, “My 7 Favorite Fairy Chess Pieces”, in The Daily SPUF[1], archived from the original on 2 August 2021:
- The problem is that it would be difficult to use a joker offensively since you could never know how it was going to move, meaning it’d be most useful setting it up for potential queen/rook captures to disincentivize your opponent from moving those pieces.
- 2023 January 5, Francine Kiefer, “‘We’re all on the same team’: Inside the Alaska model for US politics”, in The Christian Science Monitor[2], archived from the original on 22 April 2023:
- In the case of Ms. Peltola, her two Republican opponents, Ms. Palin and Nick Begich, went at each other hammer and tong, somehow missing the fact that they were disincentivizing their supporters from ranking either of them as their second choice.
Translations
[edit]to discourage by means of a disincentive
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