inducementnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ɪnˈdʒuːs.mənt/us/ɪnˈduːs.mənt/an act or thing that is intended to persuade someone or something:
financial/cash inducements
Those tenants are not going to swap lifetime security for shorter-term leases without some inducement.
[ + to infinitive ] They offered voters a massive inducement to oust the president by announcing that sanctions would be lifted if there was "democratic change".
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Urging & persuading
- argumentation
- blag
- brainwash
- bring
- browbeat
- butter
- get sth out of sb
- persuade
- persuasion
- preach
- press-gang
- prevail on/upon sb
- proselytize
- rush sb into (doing) sth
- sucker sb into sth
- swing
- talk sb down
- talk sb out of sth
- twist
- work on sb
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