inducement
[in-doos-muhnt, -dyoos-]
noun
Origin of inducement
Synonyms for inducement
Synonym study
3. See motive.
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Related Words for inducement
stimulus, encouragement, desire, urge, incitement, bait, temptation, come-on, influence, lure, spur, twist, hook, attraction, impulse, consideration, reward, cause, leader, conExamples from the Web for inducement
Contemporary Examples of inducement
So the billion-dollar question is: How do they accomplish this feat of inducement?
There was fraud in the inducement, fraud in the conveyance, and fraud in the ratings process.
Historical Examples of inducement
How are they to employ the day, or what inducement have they to employ it, in recruiting their stock of health?
Sunday under Three HeadsCharles Dickens
They may walk, to be sure, but it is exactly the inducement to walk that they require.
Sunday under Three HeadsCharles Dickens
The customer must have some inducement to bring in your rental battery and get his own.
The Automobile Storage BatteryO. A. Witte
The inducement of the throne of Naples had been held out to Marchese di Pescara.
Italy, the Magic LandLilian Whiting
Newspaper men used every inducement to get interviews from him.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, CompleteAlbert Bigelow Paine
inducement
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