Associations to the word «Deterrent»

Wiktionary

DETERRENT, adjective. Serving to deter, preventing something from happening
DETERRENT, noun. Something that deters.

Dictionary definition

DETERRENT, noun. Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress.
DETERRENT, adjective. Tending to deter; "the deterrent effects of high prices".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope