{f} cause, bring about, set in motion; influence, persuade, impel; infer, deduce, derive a general proposition from certain facts; produce by means of induction (Physics)
If you induce someone to do something, you persuade or influence them to do it. More than 4,000 teachers were induced to take early retirement. = persuade
reason or establish by induction cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
If a doctor or nurse induces labour or birth, they cause a pregnant woman to start giving birth by using drugs or other medical means. He might decide that it is best to induce labour
To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state
cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"