to conduce to

Examples

• All

• Regular exercise and a balanced diet conduce to better health and well-being.

• You know, this doesn't conduce to me making progress, right?

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• But doesn't balance itself also contribute to or conduce to happiness?

• Abraham Lincoln said of those slaves who did not throw in with John Brown that, as ignorant and uneducated as they were, they still had the wit to see that the schemes of this crazy white man would not conduce to their well-being.

  Academic text (2005)

• 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)

• 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 could conduce to a more sustainable environment.

• Working together on this project will conduce to a successful outcome for everyone involved.

Synonyms

C

to contribute

vsto conduce to

883 2.7

To give money, help, or ideas to make something work

focuses on helping bring results generally, not only by giving

M

to make for

vsto conduce to

119 3.7

Help to cause something to happen

is more about helping or contributing rather than directly causing

C

to conduce

vsto conduce to

• Formal

1 9.0

To help something happen

is the form used with a specific preposition to show contribution

Antonyms

O

to obstruct

119 5.1

To block a path or view

H

to hinder

75 3.6

To make it difficult for people or things to do something

How Helpful

to conduce to

• Formal

1 8.0

to contribute

883 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology