Usually means: Discouraging someone from doing something.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word dissuasion:

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  1. dissuasion: Merriam-Webster
  2. dissuasion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dissuasion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dissuasion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dissuasion: Vocabulary.com
  6. dissuasion: Wordnik
  7. dissuasion: Wiktionary
  8. dissuasion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dissuasion: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Dissuasion, dissuasion: Dictionary.com
  11. Dissuasion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. dissuasion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. dissuasion: Rhymezone
  14. Dissuasion, dissuasion (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. dissuasion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. dissuasion: FreeDictionary.org
  17. dissuasion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. dissuasion: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dissuasion: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dissuasion)

▸ noun:  the act or an instance of dissuading

Similar:
dissuading, disswasion, dissuasive, discouragement, dehortatio, disincentive, deterrent, dehorter, dispel, deterrence, more...

Opposite:
persuasion, encouragement, influence

Phrases:
nuclear dissuasion, Force de dissuasion, more...

Adjectives:
strong, such, nuclear, further, much, earnest, gentle, moral, tacit, quick, effective

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Similar:
dissuading, disswasion, dissuasive, discouragement, dehortatio, disincentive, deterrent, dehorter, dispel, deterrence, more...

Opposite:
persuasion, encouragement, influence

Phrases:
nuclear dissuasion, Force de dissuasion, more...

Adjectives:
strong, such, nuclear, further, much, earnest, gentle, moral, tacit, quick, effective



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