How to Use inducement in a Sentence

inducement

noun

• Employees were offered a bonus as an inducement to finish the project on schedule.
• The low interest rate was little inducement for individuals to save money.
• Was his decision influenced by any illegal financial inducements?
• Even with these inducements, Ukraine might still refuse the call for a cease-fire.
  — Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
• The widening of the spread is an inducement for brokers to ship U..
  — Jessica Summers, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• In the private sector that would be called fraud in the inducement.
  — WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• And all that becomes an inducement to get a financier to put up the rest.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 6 July 2017
• Japan presents a powerful inducement not to grow the wheat.
  — Associated Press, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2004
• But if the abatement is weighted more, So that there’s a bigger inducement to go and build an Hoff.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 May 2022
• Truth be told, for the stars, there are commercial inducements as well.
  — SI.com, 24 July 2019
• The edge of the rink delivered electric shocks when touched, an inducement to keep skating.
  — New York Times, 10 June 2022
• People in Allendale want help to move to places where there are good jobs, not inducements to stay where there are none.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• This is not the mere inducement to a partnership, as described in South Dakota v. Dole.
  — Dave Yost, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
• In order to move Smith's contract, Marchessault had to be used as inducement.
  — George Richards, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
• In other words, a strong inducement to borrow and spend remains.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Many more accepted thick envelopes of Russian rubles on top of their pay as an inducement to stay in their jobs.
  — Michael E. Miller and Samantha Schmidt, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The Bucks have sued the Van Dykes for breach of contract, civil theft and fraudulent inducement, among other claims.
  — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• A number of top Wall Street banks are offering free food as an inducement.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• The Circuit panel’s inducement to Trump to appeal to the justices by this coming Monday was not an effort to speed the case along.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
• Working with the world’s best coaches was a major inducement.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2022
• The sweepstakes appears to be little more than an inducement for getting people to call in.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• The pages center on Juicy's first encounter with the ghost of his father, Pap, and his father's inducement to seek revenge for his murder.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• After all, so the argument goes, what on earth can be a powerful enough inducement to give up his weapons?
  — Christopher R. Hill, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2017
• In the lawsuit, the Bloomberg campaign is accused of fraudulent inducement and breach of contract.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 23 Mar. 2020
• The city is planning several inducements for the project, Dibo said.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 6 Feb. 2018
• The only inducement to slacking off is a square of artificial turf and a mirror propped up in front to practice his golf swing.
  — Max Lakin, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Good workers were given a slice of their takings as well as other perks such as trips out to restaurants with the bosses as inducements.
  — TIME, 21 Mar. 2024
• Employees may keep their 401(k)s and add money to them, but without the inducement of a company match.
  — Carrie McCabe, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• This comes after prior legal action from the union, which filed an inducement claim against the company in April for pressuring workers into cancelling their union membership during the ballot period.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 18 July 2024
• In one case, a Norwegian businessman claimed to have received an explosive device through a window of his office, in Murmansk, apparently as an inducement to sign over a controlling share of his company.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024