"deters" is a word in English and is perfectly acceptable to use in written English.
You can use it to describe something that acts as a deterrent or deterrents to prevent someone doing something. For example: "The high cost of the car deterred me from buying it."
Ironically, breast ironing, which many female proponents believe deters teenage sex, may be contributing to a significant number of adverse consequences.
Perhaps the narrow and tortuous road up from the coast deters the really big tourist coaches.
He thinks the high prices of UK theatre deters audiences from taking risks when they book tickets.
Meanwhile, Missouri was the only state in the union to ramp up capital punishment this year, executing 10 convicted criminals in 2014 compared to just two in 2013 – and this at a time when the National Research Council has concluded that there's no solid evidence the death penalty deters crime, and in an age when a majority of states (not to mention most of the developed world) have abandoned it.
Cities and regions are finding it difficult to raise money on the financial markets as the anxiety about Ireland's plight deters investors from buying bonds from other would-be borrowers.
Several improved drafts down the line, and still full of proposals that range from utterly brilliant to happy-ever-after, it is not just this that deters me from voting Green.
A civil conflict, blamed on the radicals, not only deters the EU and the West from meddling, but could also give Russia dominance over parts of Ukraine, including Crimea, which it has long coveted.What next?
Voter-disapproval deters others.
Stamp duty deters some marginal house sales.
Such long delays make it unlikely that capital punishment deters other potential murderers, ruled Judge Carney, or delivers effective retribution.
Mr Busch points out that nearly 70% of disputes are settled by negotiation, presumably to the satisfaction of both parties.The credible threat of WTO-authorised retaliation also deters countries from using trade barriers that are likely to be challenged.
