Inducement is an English word with synonyms like incentive or motivator. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Inducement meaning
- An incentive that helps bring about a desired state.
- In some contexts, this can imply bribery.
Using Inducement
- The main meaning on this page is: An incentive that helps bring about a desired state. | An incentive that helps bring about a desired state. | In some contexts, this can imply bribery.
- Useful related words include: incentive, motivator, rational motive, disincentive.
- In the example corpus, inducement often appears in combinations such as: inducement to, an inducement, inducement for.
Context around Inducement
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 12 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inducement
- In this selection, "inducement" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, voter, political, financial, offered, helped and plan stand out and add context to how "inducement" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 000 as inducement to allow and a conditioned inducement to falling. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inducement" sits close to words such as abakaliki, abbasi and abductors, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inducement
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Consequently, elections in Africa are characterised by violence, voter inducement and systemic rigging. (13 words)
What if TV in bed is itself a conditioned inducement to falling asleep? (13 words)
That’s the impetus and inducement, to spawn something new, purposeful and beautiful. (13 words)
There were sufficient hard up borrowers to take the inducement offered them by management (in spite of few simple sums sufficing to demonstrate that they were probably going to end up effectively paying back the inducement). (36 words)
The Levelling Up Fund – the last vestige of Boris Johnson’s disgraced regime – is being used as a Tory pre-election bribe, a blatant party political inducement, and they’re doing it in plain sight. (35 words)
The hearing has now been rescheduled to Thursday, a date the committee said Mr Ugochinyere must appear before it with evidence of inducement as alleged by him or face a charge of contempt of parliament. (35 words)
What if TV in bed is itself a conditioned inducement to falling asleep? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Campaigns based on Inducement not issues: WTV monitored and tracked voter inducement through the distribution of money or gift items.
There were sufficient hard up borrowers to take the inducement offered them by management (in spite of few simple sums sufficing to demonstrate that they were probably going to end up effectively paying back the inducement).
Consequently, elections in Africa are characterised by violence, voter inducement and systemic rigging.
Mr Moono said the two lecturers allegedly corruptly received K1,500 cash gratification from the two female students, as an inducement or reward to make them pass their Continuous Assessments (CA) and final examinations.
The Levelling Up Fund – the last vestige of Boris Johnson’s disgraced regime – is being used as a Tory pre-election bribe, a blatant party political inducement, and they’re doing it in plain sight.
The LP presidential candidate was alluding to the PDP presidential primary in which financial inducement helped to determine the winner.
However, Musk’s giveaway appears to fall into a separate category of illegal inducement for voter registration, some experts said.
It also said that the defendant corruptly changed a student’s project supervisor for favourable grades, and requested pictures of a prospective student as an inducement for admission.
The stock options are subject to the terms of the Olema Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 2022 Inducement Plan.
What if TV in bed is itself a conditioned inducement to falling asleep?
A police officer deployed for election duty in Ondo State, turned down a cash sum of N50,000 as inducement “to allow thumb printing for voters who failed to turn up for voting”.
He was accused of committing the offence as an inducement to obtain approval by the Finance Minister II for Felcra to invest RM150 million in the Public Mutual unit trust.
If their choice is constrained by poverty, inducement, or violence, then they can’t choose those they wish to choose.
The hearing has now been rescheduled to Thursday, a date the committee said Mr Ugochinyere must appear before it with evidence of inducement as alleged by him or face a charge of contempt of parliament.
According to the regulator, some LBCs are paying spot premiums and giving other forms of inducement to cocoa farmers, practices it said, go against the Regulations and Guidelines for internal marketing of cocoa.
Historically, whenever the earnings yield exceeds bond yields for an extended period it serves as an inducement to “smart money” investors whose collective buying tends to move the market.
It also prohibits them from offering financial benefit or benefit in kind as an inducement for their services.
Saxena said the action should be taken against those indulging in inducement and illegal gratification to voters.
Tey was charged with two counts of bribing Teo with a total of S$1,500 as an inducement to expedite her PR application.
That’s the impetus and inducement, to spawn something new, purposeful and beautiful.
Common combinations with inducement
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- inducement to 14×
- an inducement 10×
- inducement for 9×
- monetary inducement 5×
- inducement and 4×
- inducement or 4×
- voter inducement 3×
- the inducement 3×
- financial inducement 3×
- of inducement 3×