perverse incentive

collocation in English

meaningsofperverseandincentive

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perverse
adjective
uk
/pəˈvɜːs/us
/pɚˈvɝːs/
strange and not what most people would expect ...
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incentive
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˈsen.tɪv/us
/ɪnˈsen.t̬ɪv/
something that encourages a person to ...
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(Definition ofperverseandincentivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The community care changes were supposed to halt theperverseincentivetowards institutional forms of care in the years before 1993.
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The extent of the bureaucratic procedures involved with the new framework risks providing aperverseincentivefor such services to minimize any such involvements.
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Furthermore, if a site cannot reach the target, there may be aperverseincentivenot to provide any care in that area at all.
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There is aperverseincentivefor people to take the latter drugs.
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Saying no to them is often aperverseincentivefor them to take such products.
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In good local authorities those issues go to members to resolve, but there will now be aperverseincentiveto short-cut them.
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Otherwise, there will be aperverseincentivenot to reduce the discount on empty homes at all.
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Aperverseincentiveexists already for local authorities in the structure of the landfill levy.
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That was surely aperverseincentive.
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Under the old system, there was aperverseincentivefor people to enter residential care whether they really needed it or not.
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It is aperverseincentivethat acts in individual patients' best interests.
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That provides aperverseincentive, which must be dealt with.
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This notion of aperverseincentiveinvolves a very strange notion of human motives.
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It may provide aperverseincentivefor some young people to leave home needlessly.
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She agreed that it would be wrong to create aperverseincentive.
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The community charge—the poll tax—is, of course, aperverseincentivein terms of our objectives.
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If ever there was aperverseincentivefor community care, that is it.
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My noble kinsman may put forward the argument ofperverseincentivewith regard to bed-and-breakfast accommodation.
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It gives employers aperverseincentiveto reduce occupational sick pay provision.
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That really is aperverseincentive.
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