deterrent
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6.6
- noun
- /dɪˈtɛrənt/
:
disuasivo
- The threat of legal action acted as a strong deterrent against potential violators.
- serve as a deterrent
- act as a deterrent
- provide a deterrent
That is a huge deterrent to the type of man that you will want.
- That is a huge deterrent to the type of man that you will want.
- Our our prison system, is it a deterrent?
- Because yes, the the idea that Trump was quite a valuable deterrent.
- Deportation, I think is one of the most, if not the most effective deterrent.
- And that's how people, if they just put ADT stickers on glass, that's a deterrent.
- Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think our gun laws on the books act as the deterrent they need to be.
- Do you have a sense of why that is not, at least at present, serving as a more active deterrent to posting this kind of content?
- Excuse me, but but I'm not really sure it's necessary for the kind of nuclear deterrent that that the United Kingdom both needs and can afford.
- Most cases, if you got a owl on top of your house as a deterrent to scare birds away, you've now scared me away.
- And the answer is definitely not just to come in and say, right, Lock everyone up, but we have to put a deterrent out there now, right?
- And so they're within their rights now to say of all the naughty things he done in prison, using him as a deterrent.
- There's a smoke detector in case of a fire, and there's a siren that works really well as a deterrent if there happens to be a break in.
- Now we've got an enormous deterrent in our paradigm.
Examples
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Incarceration hasn't worked as a deterrent.
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Finally, the telephone bill is often a deterrent to using this type of computer technology.
Academic text (1990) -
As such, it might well act as a deterrent to Soviet action.
Academic text (1992) -
The way to advance peace is by means of deterrent power that will enable us to prevent aggression.
Academic text (2008) -
Thus, the American bases provided a substantial deterrent effect against potential external threats.
Academic text (1999) -
You know, there doesn't seem to be a big enough deterrent to stop people from stealing animals.
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However, the existence of large firms should not be seen as a deterrent to privatization.
Academic text (1991) -
Fear of criticism is a powerful deterrent because the criticism doesn't actually have to occur for the fear to set in.
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Even the restraining order my parents slapped on him was no deterrent.
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Parents often use the idea of losing privileges as a deterrent to encourage good behavior in their children.
Synonyms
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7.5
The act of stopping people from doing something by making them afraid of the result
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7.2
A thing that makes people less likely to do something
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3.8
Making someone less willing to do something by saying you do not like it
Something that makes people avoid doing something by showing possible bad results
Antonyms
Compounds
How Deterrent
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6.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deterrent comes from Latin parts de- ('away') and terrere ('to frighten'), so it originally meant 'to frighten away'; that's why a deterrent is something that stops or discourages people from doing an action.