inducement

Other forms of inducement

plural

inducements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inducement

What does inducement mean?

inducement means "a positive motivational influence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inducement?

inducement has 3 syllables: in-duce-ment. The stress falls on "duce". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdusmənt/.

What is another word for inducement?

Close synonyms include incentive, motivator, inducing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inducement a common word?

inducement is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.