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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-146/
- Published: 2024-12-23T17:15:07.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-23T17:15:06.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

induce (verb):

1a: to move by persuasion or influence  
 b: to call forth or bring about by influence or stimulation  
2a: effect, cause  
 b: to cause the formation of  
 c: to produce by induction  
3: to determine by induction

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/induce?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Middle English, from Anglo-French inducer, from Latin inducere, from in- + ducere to lead. Inducing is usually gentle persuasion; you may, for instance, induce a friend to go to a concert, or induce a child to stop crying. An inducement is something that might lure you to do something, though inducements are occasionally a bit menacing, like the Godfather's offer that you can't refuse. Induce also sometimes means "produce;" thus, doctors must at times induce labor in a pregnant woman. Notice that induct and induction are somewhat different from induce and inducement, though they come from the identical roots.

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