0 an act or thing that is intended to persuade someone or something:
1 an act or a thing that is intended to make something happen or to persuade someone to do something:
As an inducement to work, their daily intake of water was restricted to that earned as reward for successful completion of fixation trials.
How particular producers or unions are 'sold' on the compromise may involve combinations of inducements, force or persuasion from the state or corporatist actors.
The financial inducement is clearly intended to produce exits from employment in order to restructure the workforce.
Additionally, the individual should not be subject to coercion or vulnerable to inducements so that they are unduly influenced.
No financial or other inducements were offered to the women who agreed to blood sampling of their own volition.
Many left because of the inducements, some because they had financial commitments, such as a mortgage or dependent children, that the package solved.
Some wondered whether financial inducements had influenced the decision to move ahead with these studies with less caution than was appropriate.
This was a powerful inducement for good conduct.