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What is an inducement?

What is an inducement? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An incentive that helps bring about a desired state. In some contexts, this can imply bribery.
  2. (law) An introductory statement of facts or background information.
  3. (shipping) The act of placing a port on a vessel's itinerary because the volume of cargo offered at that port justifies the cost of routing the vessel.
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Basing reserve requirement percentages on capital performance can be a major inducement for capital growth.
As an added inducement, it was heavy-handedly hinted that co-operation by Bucharest would assist Romania's ambition to join the European Union.
Bronson simply phones it in and collects his check, though probably having his wife Jill Ireland as co-producer was a nice inducement.
An inciter is one who reaches and seeks to influence the mind of another by suggestion, request, proposal, argument, persuasion or inducement.
One is at a loss whether to call the above ruse a fraud, inducement, immoral force, exploitation or all of these.
Fathership remained unchanged since there was never any inducement to supply the want of the legitimate father.

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