Inducement vs. Sweetener — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Inducement and Sweetener
Definitions
Inducement➦
Something that helps bring about an action or a desired result; an incentive
Tax breaks intended as an inducement to greater reinvestment.
Sweetener➦
Something that sweetens.
Inducement➦
The act or process of inducing
The inducement of sleep.
Sweetener➦
(Informal) Something added as a further inducement or incentive.
Inducement➦
(Law) Misrepresentation that leads a person to enter into a contract or transaction with a false understanding of the risks and obligations
Fraud in the inducement.
Sweetener➦
Something added to food to sweeten its taste, especially an artificial substitute for sugar.
Inducement➦
An incentive that helps bring about a desired state. In some contexts, this can imply bribery.
Citation of Richard Stallman ...it won't run on a free platform and (...) your program is actually an inducement for people to install non-free software.Richard Stallman's speech in Australian National University on 13 October 2004, Part 2, as seen in [https://web.archive.org/web/20081211064444/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1647626314188526128&q=linux+site%3Avideo.google.com&total=44&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7 this film] on video.google.com, circa 40% into the movie. Stallman was talking about Java and flash as inducements for installing non-free software.[dead link]
Sweetener➦
(informal) Something given or added to added to a deal to sweeten another's attitude, especially a bribe or kickback.
Inducement➦
(legal) An introductory statement of facts or background information.
Sweetener➦
(slang) A shill bidder at an auction.
Inducement➦
(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.
Sweetener➦
One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.
Inducement➦
The act of inducing, or the state of being induced.
Sweetener➦
Something added to foods to make them taste sweeter
Inducement➦
That which induces; a motive or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an inducement to toil.
Sweetener➦
Anything that serves as an enticement
Inducement➦
Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.
Inducement➦
A positive motivational influence
Inducement➦
Act of bringing about a desired result;
Inducement of sleep
