to conduce
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9.0
- verb
- /kənˈduːs/
- Formal
:
conducir a
- Even the material form of the letter conduces to this.
- conduce to the values
No, this is food that conduces to health, right?
- No, this is food that conduces to health, right?
- You know, this doesn't conduce to me making progress, right?
Examples
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And I do not accept Urquhart's claim that such an ethics makes unselfishness pointless, since clearly benefiting the One by always putting oneself first will not conduce to general satisfaction.
Academic text (1997) -
Identified it with magnanimity, bodily strength, and everything that conduces to make men very bold.
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Might conduce to stronger families and a stronger economy.
Blog text (9) -
No, this is food that conduces to health, right?
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But doesn't balance itself also contribute to or conduce to happiness?
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Virtue is going to be justifiable because it conduces to happiness and it's going to be part of what it is to be happy.
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Therefore, it is reasonable that society adopt conventional norms of justice in holdings that promise to conduce to overall well-being, understood as consequentialistic maximization.
Academic text (1990) -
The manner of life, the distances, the climate... the very multitude of the population in which personality vanishes... all this together with the absence of continental diversions... conduces to the same effect.
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To attack that world directly was to involve oneself in it; the primary task, as Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman saw it, was to put forward exemplary instances of the wholeness of vision that might conduce to the social world's conversion.
Academic text (1992) -
The new policies are designed to conduce to economic growth in the region.
Synonyms
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3.2
To cause something to happen
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2.7
To give money, help, or ideas to make something work
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4.9
To make a task or process easier and help it happen
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3.7
Help to cause something to happen
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Help something happen or make it more likely
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
How Helpful
- Formal
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883
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
conduce = con + duce
Although historically analyzable as Latin con- + duc- ('lead'), 'duce' is not a standalone English word and the combination is not a productive modern English formation, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from its parts.
Etymology
The word conduce comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and ducere 'to lead', the same root you see in conduct. So to conduce to something is to 'lead together' or to help bring it about.