Meaning & use
conducive environment
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Meanings
nouncountable
A situation or place that makes it easy for something good to happen or develop.
Grammar: Countable: you can say a conducive environment or conducive environments.
Patterns
- a conducive environment for something
- a conducive environment to do something
- create/provide a conducive environment
The school aims to create a conducive environment for learning.
A quiet room with good light provides a conducive environment for studying.
The new manager worked hard to build a conducive environment for teamwork.
nounsingular
Conditions that help a particular activity or process to succeed.
Grammar: Often used with the: the conducive environment needed for growth.
Patterns
- the conducive environment for something
- a conducive environment for doing something
The conducive environment for innovation includes freedom to experiment.
We need to ensure a conducive environment for negotiation before talks begin.
Word forms
| plural | conducive environments |
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Common combinations
- conducive environment for
- The library is a conducive environment for quiet study.
- conducive environment to
- They tried to make a conducive environment to learning.
- create a conducive environment
- The teacher created a conducive environment for discussion.
- provide a conducive environment
- The company provides a conducive environment for creativity.
- conducive environment for growth
- A warm climate is a conducive environment for plant growth.
Synonyms and how they differ
- favorable environment
- Favorable is more general and can describe opinions or conditions; conducive specifically means helping something to happen.
- supportive environment
- Supportive focuses on giving help or encouragement, while conducive focuses on making a result possible or likely.
- helpful conditions
- Helpful conditions is less formal and often used in everyday speech; conducive environment is more formal and common in writing.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: conducive environment or conducive?
conducive environment vs conducive
Conducive is an adjective; conducive environment is a noun phrase. Don't say 'a conducive' alone to mean an environment.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'conducive environment' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Choice B correctly uses the noun phrase 'conducive environment' with the preposition 'for' to show what is helped. Choice An is wrong because 'noisy' contradicts the positive meaning. Choices C and D use the phrase as a verb, which is not grammatical.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “conducive environment”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.