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Difference Between Inducement and Sweetener

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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

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