conduce

[US]/kən'djuːs/
[UK]/kənˈdus/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vi. be beneficial; contribute to; lead to.
Word Forms
Third Person Singularconduces
Past Participleconduced
Past Tenseconduced
Present Participleconducing

Phrases & Collocations

conduce to success

Example Sentences

nothing would conduce more to the unity of the nation.

Physical training conduces to good health.

Heart to heart chats conduce to the establishment of harmonious atmosphere among fellow workers.

Wealth does not always conduce to happiness.

The BDT(1,3 benzodithiol 2 yl) group conduced to the protection of the conjugated triene system.

As the president of France and former EU presidency, facing such malevolent act conduced by both the Russians and the Americans, I consider this issue  very incomprehensive.

The whole develop process of E. prolifera kept polarity, the villi-form protuberances and meshwork structures in the internal cavum of pipelike thallus conduced to the morphological development.

To meet additional demand, the council obtained a further grant of $20 million from the UGC to enable a further exercise to be conduced in the triennium for the CRC Scheme.

Real-world Examples

The gambling with the Guineas had not conduced to make him a welcome guest to Clym.

Source: Returning Home

Whether it conduces to the greatest happiness or not is a question I leave on one side, for I am now discussing only effectiveness.

Source: Southwest Associated University English Textbook

The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favor, conduced to my distraction.

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

All of this conduces to the point where we say: all of our words, all of our concepts fall short of who God really is.

Source: Catholicism

But everybody must live; where would they all be if, under the pretext of conducing to the general welfare, the consumer was fattened at the expense of the producer?

Source: Women's Paradise (Middle)

Xu's Yale lab is more productive, thanks to the lower costs of conducing research in China, and Chinese graduate students, post-doctors and faculty get on-the-job training from a world-class scientist and his U.S. team.

Source: English translation

Suppose he should become blind, or, at all events, never recover sufficient strength of sight to engage in an occupation which would be congenial to her feelings, and conduce to her removal from this lonely dwelling among the hills?

Source: Returning Home

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