To provide disincentives that discourage a person or organization from acting in a particular way.
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- disincentivize delay
- disincentivize waste
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The rule disincentivized delay by linking payment to completion dates.
The pricing arrangement disincentivized waste without banning the activity entirely.
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Word forms
- Base
- disincentivize
- Past tense
- disincentivized
- Past participle
- disincentivized
- Present participle
- disincentivizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disincentivize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disincentivizing
- Present perfect
- have/has disincentivized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disincentivizing
- Past
- disincentivized
- Past continuous
- was/were disincentivizing
- Past perfect
- had disincentivized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disincentivizing
- Future
- will disincentivize
- Future continuous
- will be disincentivizing
- Future perfect
- will have disincentivized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disincentivizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: disincentivize; disincentivizes; disincentivized; disincentivized; disincentivizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: uncommon. Third-person singular: disincentivizes.
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