- to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- to introduce, especially to something requiring special knowledge or experience; initiate (usually followed by to or into): They inducted him into the mystic rites of the order.
- to take (a draftee) into military service; draft.
- to bring in as a member: to induct a person into a new profession.
- to bring in formally or install in an office, place, etc; invest
- to initiate in knowledge (of)
- to enlist for military service; conscript
- physics another word for induce (def. 5), induce (def. 6)
