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  • verb Alternative spelling of disincentivize.

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  • EuroLND, London, 06/06/2011 13:40 Fulhamite, I do like the word 'disincentivise', even if you have just made it up, it isn't in the dictionary.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • EuroLND, London, 06/06/2011 13:40 Fulhamite, I do like the word 'disincentivise', even if you have just made it up, it isn't in the dictionary.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • "The challenge of single-occupancy vehicles in our major cities will continue unabated unless we introduce very stringent measures to 'disincentivise' the continued use of [them].

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • This could have the twin benefits of helping to alleviate poverty, while also smoothing out the high marginal rates which disincentivise extra work.

    The choice facing the Tories 2009

  • The implicit reference, here, is to Labour's combined tax and benefit system, which frequently acts to disincentivise extra work.

    A pledge which Cameron looks set to break 2009

  • This could have the twin benefits of helping to alleviate poverty, while also smoothing out the high marginal rates which disincentivise extra work.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • To my mind, the answer is not to incentivise marriage, but disincentivise single parenthood and divorce in the future, by uprooting the benefit system.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • To my mind, the answer is not to incentivise marriage, but disincentivise single parenthood and divorce in the future, by uprooting the benefit system.

    Love and marriage 2009

  • To my mind, the answer is not to incentivise marriage, but disincentivise single parenthood and divorce in the future, by uprooting the benefit system.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • An authoritarian would go for the serilisation option, whereas a libertarian would go for a per capita reduction of state benefits to disincentivise the mother's behaviour.

    A non-sterilised observation 2008

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