If I convince someone to abandon a contract for some product they were buying, and get that product from me instead, I have "made them dependent on" me. Perhaps I have "dependify'd" them.
Is there a real word with this usage?
Thanks! :)
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Sign up to join this communityIf I convince someone to abandon a contract for some product they were buying, and get that product from me instead, I have "made them dependent on" me. Perhaps I have "dependify'd" them.
Is there a real word with this usage?
Thanks! :)
Engender or Enjoined is the word.
To enjoin them to buy from you is to cause or create a need for them to buy from only you. It is more polite than enslave but amounts to the same thing. So long as they need a product they will look to you. I hope you can be happy in serving them.
I know no such word as you suggest. Two words come to mind:
You have ensnared them.
Ensnare = to catch or get control of something or someone:
You may also have enticed them.
Entice = to persuade someone to do something by offering them something pleasant
Which to choose? ensnare fits your example better.
I point out that you may ensnare (in a new contract) by enticing (with an attractive offer), but that you are unlikely to entice by ensnaring.