Examples of disincentive in a Sentence
We considered volunteering, but the complicated application process was a disincentive.
The complicated application process was a disincentive to volunteering our time.
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In short, to make housing more affordable, our local leaders should reduce the disincentives to new single and multifamily construction through reform of the city’s rent control, its overly restrictive tenant-rights policies, and its glacial permitting process.
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Will Swaim, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
Addressing the rebate system will help remove this current disincentive for using biosimilars.
—Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Furthermore, today the potential loss of human life is a deterrent for conflict initiation and escalation, but when the main casualties are robots, the disincentives change dramatically and the likelihood of conflict increases.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2017
Aside from all the implications for hardware vendors, this is the opposite of the business model for the typical horizontal software or cloud provider, which creates a disincentive for developers (and investors) to build scalable business plans.
—Jason Andersen, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Will Swaim, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
Addressing the rebate system will help remove this current disincentive for using biosimilars.
—Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Furthermore, today the potential loss of human life is a deterrent for conflict initiation and escalation, but when the main casualties are robots, the disincentives change dramatically and the likelihood of conflict increases.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2017
Aside from all the implications for hardware vendors, this is the opposite of the business model for the typical horizontal software or cloud provider, which creates a disincentive for developers (and investors) to build scalable business plans.
—Jason Andersen, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for disincentive
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“Disincentive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disincentive. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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