disincentivize

English

Alternative forms

• disincentivise

Etymology

From disincentive +‎ -ize or dis- +‎ incentivize.

Verb

disincentivize (third-person singular simple present disincentivizes, present participle disincentivizing, simple past and past participle disincentivized)

1. (transitive) To discourage or demotivate by means of a disincentive.

   Synonym: deincentivize

   Antonym: incentivize

   • 2023 January 5, Francine Kiefer, “‘We’re all on the same team’: Inside the Alaska model for US politics”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     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

to discourage by means of a disincentive

• Catalan: desincentivar (ca)
• Finnish: hillitä (fi), pidätellä (fi)
• French: décourager (fr), dissuader (fr)
• Galician: desincentivar (gl)
• Italian: disincentivare (it)
• Portuguese: desincentivar
• Spanish: desincentivar (es)