MEANING
Providing conditions that make an activity, development, or outcome easier or more likely.
Use it for
describing conditions that favor an outcome; distinguishing a helpful environment from a guaranteed result; analyzing how institutions support a processDescribes favorable conditions without claiming that they are necessary or sufficient causes. Academic functions: Causation / Relationships.
Words that belong together
- conducive to learning
- conditions conducive to growth
- an environment conducive to cooperation
On the page
The study asks which conditions are conducive to cooperation rather than assuming that cooperation follows automatically.
Lower transaction costs may be conducive to investment without being sufficient to produce it.
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Word forms
- Base
- conducive
Usage notes
Usually conducive to + noun or -ing form, not conducive for. More/most conducive are natural. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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