disincentivize

present singular third person disincentivizes · participle present disincentivizing · participle past disincentivized · past disincentivized · alternative disincentivise

1. BritishEnglishOxfordUStransitiveTo discourage or demotivate by means of a disincentive.

   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.

   2023 January 5, Francine Kiefer, “‘We’re all on the same team’: Inside the Alaska model for US politics”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2023

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   The problem is that it would be difficult to use a joker offensively since you could never know how it was going to move, meaning it’d be most useful setting it up for potential queen/rook captures to disincentivize your opponent from moving those pieces.

   2018 October 12, aabicus, “My 7 Favorite Fairy Chess Pieces”, in The Daily SPUF, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2021

   Synonyms: deincentivize · Antonyms: incentivize