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deterrent
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Word definitions for deterrent in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. tending to deter; "the deterrent effects of high prices"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deterrent \De*ter"rent\, n. That which deters or prevents.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Serving to deter, preventing something from happening n. Something that deters.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE effective ▪ By the autumn of 1959, the Chiefs of Staff had begun to doubt its viability as an effective deterrent . ▪ It would, in the end, be a far more effective deterrent . ▪ Is he satisfied that an effective ...
Usage examples of deterrent.
Then she found a patch of fleabane and pulled up several plants to throw on the fire, as an additional deterrent along with ordinary smoke to help keep a small area close to the fire relatively insect free.
The strongest deterrent to a freeloading politician is the threat of public exposure, and here the grand jury missed the boat.
This point is important because it makes chemical and biological weapons much less useful to Saddam as deterrents of his own.
A makeshift fence of weak plywood slats circled it, but as deterrents went, it was lame.
Other Russians were tamed by deterrents like labour camps, psychiatric hospitals, and the death sentence.
Its current force, however, is probably small and intended principally as a deterrent against efforts to topple the regime by enemies foreign or domestic.
Now, I am familiar with your history of accomplishments in the face of improbable odds, and I realize that, for you, these forces we have put on line are more in the nature of nuisances than deterrents.
Bafforr tree pollen shows promise as an allergen that affects the armor, but it will be some time before the pollen can be synthesized in the amounts needed to serve as an effective deterrent or biological agent.
Logan knew the sound bite was the kind of catchy comment the rest of the media would pick up--one that could prove to be an effective deterrent.
Which was basically the same job on an interstellar scale, with the benefit that governments usually tended to be more rational about the disposition of their strategic interstellar deterrents than bampot street performers with a grudge against society and a home brew nuke.
Christ in a bucket: independent bastarding deterrent, The Genuine Shit Article, cold fucking filtering, Edin-burg, Edin-borow, Sleep when I'm a de-rigueurly long-haired white-skinned head-banging high-pitched middle-aged sub-grunge light-metal Zep-clone.
Still, today the serrated tumbler is used as an effective deterrent to manipulation in combination padlocks where space is a factor.
Like Gardiner, she was convinced that the burnings would act as a deterrent to others.
They were fascinated by the special psionic Talents used by the Federation to reduce loss of life without diluting the effectiveness of the deterrent with which they had defeated the initial attempts of the Hive ships to intrude on their spheres of influence.
Jack disrated Morgan, promoting the dumb negro Alfred King, according to his former threat - a dumb bosun's mate would surely be more terrible, more deterrent.