Meaning & use
entice
To attract someone by offering something desirable or tempting.
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The bakery's smell alone was enough to entice customers off the street.
The company enticed top engineers with generous stock options and flexible hours.
A note on using this word
Entice often implies a deliberate, sometimes cunning effort to persuade, and it usually takes a person as its object followed by 'with' or an infinitive.
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