as in counterincentive
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Recent Examples of disincentive
Addressing the rebate system will help remove this current disincentive for using biosimilars.
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Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
If Russia is faced not just by a trip-wire NATO peacekeeping force, primarily from Britain and France, but also by entrenched American commercial interests, heavy industry, and personnel, the combination would amount to a major disincentive to renew its aggression.
—Hugo Gurdon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
Those half-dozen years of club control, at less-than-free-market salaries, act as a slight disincentive to sign free agents who might be approaching or already past their athletic peaks at around age 30.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
With no centralized system for divvying up off-duty assignments, lower-ranking officers are often referring their bosses to freelance work — a powerful disincentive for a supervisor to reprimand a subordinate, the DOJ concluded.
—Kyle Stokes, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
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Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
If Russia is faced not just by a trip-wire NATO peacekeeping force, primarily from Britain and France, but also by entrenched American commercial interests, heavy industry, and personnel, the combination would amount to a major disincentive to renew its aggression.
—Hugo Gurdon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
Those half-dozen years of club control, at less-than-free-market salaries, act as a slight disincentive to sign free agents who might be approaching or already past their athletic peaks at around age 30.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
With no centralized system for divvying up off-duty assignments, lower-ranking officers are often referring their bosses to freelance work — a powerful disincentive for a supervisor to reprimand a subordinate, the DOJ concluded.
—Kyle Stokes, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Disincentive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disincentive. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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