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UK
/dɪtˈɜːɹənt/
]
[ US /dɪˈtɝɹənt/ ]
[ US /dɪˈtɝɹənt/ ]
NOUN
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
ADJECTIVE
-
tending to deter
the deterrent effects of high prices
How To Use deterrent In A Sentence
- The fact that many crustaceans, being omnivorous, may act as scavengers and eat the corpses of fellow aquatic creatures need not be a deterrent.
- The punishment is so severe that it is a deterrent for the criminal to commit the crime.
- Natural deterrents against sea erosion (mangroves, sandbanks, reefs etc.) have been depleted to such extents that their revival cannot be considered a viable plan to counter sea disasters.
- The concentration of wealth and power is a great deterrent to democracy.
- In addition, divided catalogues or separate classified catalogues could also have acted as a deterrent to subject searching.
- While persuading believers to put less emphasis on ritual, he must also set up a real deterrent - courts with real teeth that do not kowtow to rich thieves.
- We want deterrent sentences to prevent crime as the current laws are not stringent enough.
- The nuclear deterrent will stay, but there is still pressure to do it on the cheap. Times, Sunday Times
- They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent.
- But if some receive swift and exemplary punishment it will serve as a deterrent to the rest. Times, Sunday Times