¿Qué significa deter en inglés?

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deter Significado & definición

0 to prevent someone from doing something or to make someone less enthusiastic about doing something by making it difficult for that person to do it or by threatening bad results if they do it -- (hacer) disuadir
- These measures are designed to deter an enemy attack.
- High prices are deterring many young people from buying houses.
1 to discourage sb from doing sth -- impedir
- Severe weather deterred travel. El mal tiempo disuadió que se viajara.

The acid test of the code will be whether it deters undercutting.
I believe that you have to go further than the courts to deter inequalities.
I would also urge you, though, to deter countries from running up deficits – if need be, by means of higher interest rates and poorer internal ratings.
Much more must be done to deter perpetrators and to hold them accountable for their actions.
It provides the legal framework to deter late payers from paying late or from imposing unduly long payment periods on their partners.
That is why we must educate and prevent, why we must test and deter and why we must do both these things together.
Our criminal justice systems may punish, but how successful they are in deterring and rehabilitating is open to question.
It also presents a range of proposals designed to deter smoking, particularly amongst children and adolescents, which can only deserve our support.