Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Something that helps bring about an action or a desired result; an incentive.
  • noun The act or process of inducing.
  • noun Law Misrepresentation that leads a person to enter into a contract or transaction with a false understanding of the risks and obligations.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That which induces; anything that leads the mind to will or to act; that which influences one's conduct; motive; incentive.
  • noun A preamble, preface, or introductory explanation; an induction. See induction, n., 4.
  • noun In law, a statement which leads to the main statement; facts and circumstances stated by way of preliminary to show out of what the act or transaction directly in question arose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of inducing, or the state of being induced.
  • noun That which induces; a motive or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act.
  • noun (Law) Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An incentive that helps bring about a desired state.
  • noun law An introductory statement of facts or background information.
  • noun shipping The act of placing a port on a vessel's itinerary because the volume of cargo offered at that port justifies the cost of routing the vessel.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a positive motivational influence
  • noun act of bringing about a desired result

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Examples

  • Another way of putting it is that in selecting a glass company for an insurance-covered repair, the consumer is acting as an agent for the insurance company, and as such an agent the consumer is taking a monetary inducement from a particular vendor to throw business to that vendor.

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  • Because less than that is not going to offer them a long-term inducement to eschew nuclear weapons.

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2004 2004

  • "What inducement is there to do it"? and so forth, and so on.

    How Speed Records Are Broken 1932

  • [Page 4] are not yet completely free: War, and the consequent enslavement of women, has been the main inducement to Polygamy, with its conception of women as property, and its debasement of love to physical enjoyment: War has engendered and perpetuated that dominance of man as a military animal which has pervaded every social institution from Parliament downwards.

    Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women Charles Kay 1915

  • This refers to the desertions of the H.B. Co. Free-hunters under inducement from the American traders, concerning which there has been some reflection cast upon Gen.W. H. Ashley, but without real evidence to support it.

    Journal of John Work, June 21 - Sept. 6, 1825 1825

  • The amount of current investment will depend, in turn, on what we shall call the inducement to invest; and the inducement to invest will be found to depend on the relation between the schedule of the marginal efficiency of capital and the complex of rates of interest on loans of various maturities and risks.

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 2003

  • The definition of corruption in terms of Act 94 of 1992, which serves as the basis for prosecution, is mainly predicated on the notion of inducement and seems to ignore the inherent conflict of interest between public and private interest.

    Statement by Thabo Mbeki at the Anti-Corruption Summit Conference 1998

  • The definition of corruption in terms of Act 94 of 1992, which serves as the basis for prosecution, is mainly predicated on the notion of inducement and seems to ignore the inherent conflict of interest between public and private interest.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • AGREEMENTS.If one strategy to induce favorable decisions or agreements is an attempt to make the alternative to such agreement worse, a complementary strategy is inducement, that is, to make agreement more valuable.

    The Manager as Negotiator Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain DAVID A. LAX 1986

  • AGREEMENTS.If one strategy to induce favorable decisions or agreements is an attempt to make the alternative to such agreement worse, a complementary strategy is inducement, that is, to make agreement more valuable.

    The Manager as Negotiator Bargaining for Cooperation and Competitive Gain DAVID A. LAX 1986

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  • inducement – something that helps bring about an action or a desired result; an incentive

    July 14, 2008