verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
actively
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You certainly wasted studio time and resources, so one was actively discouraged .
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In this day of the lawsuit, touching a student is often actively discouraged by school administrators.
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On the contrary, some seemed to actively discourage it.
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Contact between the different groups was actively discouraged .
also
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Leaving on an interior light as well during the night can also discourage a potential burglar.
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Jobs also discourage accountability, because they reward people not for getting the necessary work done but for doing their jobs.
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Regular watering will also discourage them.
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The middle-class skills - such as public speaking - required to be an effective councillor may also discourage many manual workers.
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Recessions cause firms to scrap equipment; they also discourage new investment, all the more so if interest rates are high.
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It also discourages the opposition from closing him down. emailinc True, but they seemed pretty cohesive, and confident.
■ NOUN
company
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Possible underpricing of its services, which could discourage competition from private companies .
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All the Republicans except Buchanan support global free trade and oppose direct measures to discourage companies from moving manufacturing plants overseas.
investment
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These fluctuations can be very damaging to business confidence and may discourage long-term investment .
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The Kemp Commission took the same position, saying those taxes discourage saving and investment .
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Taxes on investment may discourage high-risk projects.
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High interest rates lead to the following problems: They may discourage investment plans and hence long-term growth.
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The aim of this is to avoid discouraging new investment , although the 10% share still represents an open-ended liability.
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The farmers say that fear of being bought out will discourage future investment in their land.
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Recessions cause firms to scrap equipment; they also discourage new investment , all the more so if interest rates are high.
people
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If we believed it would have an adverse effect on claims, we would discourage people from buying timber-frame.
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We wanted very much to discourage people from porting their current applications over to the Macintosh.
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This could discourage people from driving ten miles to buy their groceries.
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But frankly, we try to discourage people from our business who are too interested in money.
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The welfare system, runs this view, makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour.
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Learning the codes discourages some people from attempting to type, he said.
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It would impose taxes on business and individuals which would discourage enterprise and discourage people from trying to work hard.
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It was a film in a series called Vanishing Peoples , which was discouraging .
use
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It is obvious that the relatively low price of high grade primary aggregates discourages efficient use of available resources and increases wastage.
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Deductions would be eliminated in most cases to close loopholes and discourage the use of tax shelters.
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Mr Bergg said the Liberal Democrates would discourage the use of cars as much as possible.
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Fourth, the fund may lack the accounting systems and performance measurement techniques to incorporate futures, so discouraging their use .
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A draft urged governments to tax up the price of tobacco to discourage its use .
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Some recycling might be promoted by regulatory changes: building regulations, for example, often discourage the use of recycled materials.
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I have discouraged the use of adjectives in the last two chapters but here you can see them used with superb skill.
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The relative complexity of gastric crypt anatomy compared with colorectal mucosa has discouraged its use as an experimental model in proliferation research.
■ VERB
become
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He becomes annoyed or discouraged if corrected too often.
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Colin, on the other hand, became discouraged and let things slip.
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Its official policy is anti-Western, and it obstructs aid organisations with so much red tape that they have become discouraged .
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Unfortunately, after 11 years living here, I too am becoming discouraged .
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After several unsuccessful efforts, they would become discouraged and often would begin to spit up.
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As time passed, Mary and her husband become more and more discouraged and exhausted.
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It matters little that the teacher exhorts; the unmotivated students become discouraged quickly, they quit, and become our failures.
encourage
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There is a separate question of whether free flows of long-term capital can be encouraged while discouraging some short-term capital movements.
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Meetings around the water cooler are encouraged rather than discouraged .
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It should unite rather than divide, encourage rather than discourage .
try
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I tried to discourage him, but in the end he became a little bit of a nuisance, you know?
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The state Department of Agriculture tries to discourage the practice.
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In the early days Busacher had tried to discourage him.
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But frankly, we try to discourage people from our business who are too interested in money.
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What do we do, them or try to discourage their supporters from voting?
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But... try again without being discouraged ...
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Many teenagers today would live in their trainers, given half a chance, but try to discourage this.
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Wesley tried to discourage his friend from going.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Although the troubles in the financial markets have made his cautious, Reid said they haven't discouraged him.
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Girls are sometimes discouraged from studying subjects like engineering and physics.
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Higher cigarette prices do not seem to discourage people from smoking.
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Higher taxes are likely to discourage investment.
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It is a well known fact that a negative working environment discourages creativity.
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Leave the lights on when you're out in order to discourage burglars.
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Put the plant in a cold room to discourage growth.
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The cameras should discourage shoplifters.
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Trying to lose weight fast will only discourage you.
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We need to discourage the use of cars for short journeys.
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What discouraged me most was our lack of progress in the pay negotiations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the very least your notes should not discourage you in this aim.
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Fourth, the fund may lack the accounting systems and performance measurement techniques to incorporate futures, so discouraging their use.
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If this report that the army is planning a coup is serious, then the army must be discouraged from doing that.
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The air filled with the strong scent of herbs being burned to discourage elemental spirits.
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The complexities of scheduling thousands of students for individual courses discourage change.
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These things are not written under any feeling of discouragement, much less to discourage others.