{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 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
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"
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
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 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