inducement

noun 4

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noun

1

An incentive that helps bring about a desired state.

Flagellation, especially among Orientals, is considered as much a sexual inducement as any other form of aphrodisiac.

These policies were intended to change the situational inducements to crime by giving youths work.

2

An incentive that helps bring about a desired state.

Citation of Richard Stallman ...it won't run on a free platform and (...) your program is actually an inducement for people to install non-free software.

3

An introductory statement of facts or background information.

4

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.

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