perverse effect
collocation in Englishmeaningsofperverseandeffect
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perverse
adjective
uk/pəˈvɜːs/us/pɚˈvɝːs/
strange and not what most people would expect ...
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effect
noun
uk/ɪˈfekt/us/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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(Definition ofperverseandeffectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofperverse effect
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In its global coverage, the book creates a slightlyperverseeffect.
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Charges based on pollutant concentrations may have theperverseeffectof reducing water conservation, increasing industrial costs of treatment, and increasing pollutant damages.
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This has theperverseeffectof increasing fuel consumption, increasing pollution, and increasing maintenance costs.
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Assumption (5) assures that this somewhatperverseeffectis dominated by the effect of decreasing marginal benefits.
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For the medium term, this plan seems likely to reduce the attention such specialists can devote to the patients who need their time - again, an oddperverseeffect.
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Indeed, one might think that tax breaks even have aperverseeffect.
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What is more, far from favouring young artists, the resale right has aperverseeffect.
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However, this increase in production has also had aperverseeffecton the farmers themselves.
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The fourth disadvantage of high interest rates is theirperverseeffecton the balance of payments.
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It obscures the underlying trend and produces theperverseeffectthat the tightening of monetary policy causes an apparent rise in recorded inflation.
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Placing a duty on the director to consider that might therefore also have theperverseeffectof encouraging a relaxation of effort on energy efficiency.
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Indeed, it now has theperverseeffectat night of adding to the sum of the disturbance that may be caused.
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It also has theperverseeffectof increasing the purchase of gilts, thereby depressing the yield on annuities.
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He mentioned aperverseeffect, but talked about one particular aspect.
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What in the world are we doing putting in place a system that has such a thoroughlyperverseeffect?
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I know of no other system that does not have this kind ofperverseeffect.
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Adding this phrase to subsection (2) could have theperverseeffectof narrowing the agency's scope for action rather than broadening it.
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I also said that oneperverseeffectof these amendments would be to diminish the usefulness of accounts.
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However, including sugar—and, for that matter, rum, bananas and rice, but sugar concerns me most—will have aperverseeffect.
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I certainly would not want to push an amendment that had theperverseeffectdescribed.
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