Inducement

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inducement \In*duce"ment\, n. [From {Induce}.]
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     1. The act of inducing, or the state of being induced.
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     2. That which induces; a motive or consideration that leads


        one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an
        inducement to toil. "Mark the inducement." --Shak.
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     3. (Law) Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or
        introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a
        leading to.
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     Syn: Motive; reason; influence. See {Motive}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inducement
       n 1: a positive motivational influence [syn: {incentive}, {motivator}]
            [ant: {disincentive}]
       2: act of bringing about a desired result; "inducement of
          sleep" [syn: {inducing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "inducement":
     Trinkgeld, agacerie, allure, allurement, appeal, attraction,
     attractiveness, bait, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery,
     bewitchment, blandishment, bonus, bounty, bribe, cajolement,
     cajolery, captivation, carrot, charisma, charm, charmingness,
     coaxing, come-hither, come-on, conning, consideration, donative,
     double time, enchantment, encouragement, engagement, enlistment,
     enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, exhortation, fascination,
     fee, fillip, flirtation, forbidden fruit, glamour, gratuity, gravy,
     grease, honorarium, hortation, incentive, incentive pay,
     incitement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, jawboning,
     lagniappe, largess, liberality, lobbying, lure, magnetism,
     palm oil, payment, percentage, perks, perquisite, persuasion,
     persuasive, pourboire, preaching, preachment, premium, profit,
     provocation, reward, sales talk, salesmanship, salve, seducement,
     seduction, seductiveness, selling, sex appeal, snaring, snow job,
     soft soap, solicitation, something extra, sportula, spur,
     stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, suasion, sweet talk, sweetener,
     sweetening, tantalization, temptation, tip, wheedling, whet,
     winning ways, winsomeness, witchery, wooing, working on
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INDUCEMENT, pleading. The statement of matter which is introductory to the 
  principal subject of the declaration or plea, &c., but which is necessary to 
  explain and elucidate it; such matter as is not introductory to or necessary 
  to elucidate the substance or gist of the declaration or plea, &c. nor is 
  collaterally applicable to it, not being inducement but surplusage. 
  Inducement or conveyance, which. are synonymous terms, is in the nature of a 
  preamble to an act of assembly, and leads to the Principal subject of the 
  declaration or plea, &c. the same as that does to the purview or providing 
  clause of the act. For instance, in an action for a nuisance to property in 
  the possession of the plaintiff, the circumstance of his being possessed of 
  the property should be stated as inducement, or byway of introduction to the 
  mention of the nuisance. Lawes, Pl. 66, 67; 1 Chit. Pl. 292; Steph. Pl. 257; 
  14 Vin. Ab. 405; 20 Id. 845; Bac. Ab. Pleas. &c. I 2. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INDUCEMENT, contracts, evidence. The moving cause of an action.
       2. In contracts, the benefit.which the obligor is to receive is the 
  inducement to making them. Vide Cause; Consideration. 
       3. When a person is charged with a crime, he is sometimes induced to 
  make confessions by the flattery of hope, or the torture of fear. When such 
  confessions are made in consequence of promises or threats by a person in 
  authority, they cannot be received in evidence. In England a distinction has 
  been made between temporal and spiritual inducements; confessions made under 
  the former are not receivable in evidence, while the latter may be admitted. 
  Joy on Conf. ss. 1 and 4.