- a factor, especially a financial disadvantage, that tends to discourage people from doing something起抑制作用的因素（尤指金融上的不利因素）：
spiralling house prices are beginning to act as a disincentive to development.
不断上升的房价开始成为发展的障碍。
- tending to discourage抑制的; 阻碍的：
higher taxes have major disincentive effects on work effort.
更高的税对工作热情起主要的抑制作用。