Inurement - definition, transcription

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Amer.  |ɪˈnjʊəmənt|
Brit.  |ɪˈnjʊəmənt|

noun

- Custom, habituation; normal practice.
- Benefit; for example, the 501c3 prohibition against "private inurement" within non-profit entities means that individuals within that organization may not receive excessive compensation or benefit from their employment or association, because such arrangements would contravene the supposed mission of the organization.
- (law) In patent law, the doctrine that the work done by a person hired by an inventor to test a conception supports the right of that inventor to the resulting invention.

Extra examples

Does violence on television inure children to violence in real life?

...the hardship of army training inured her to the rigors of desert warfare...

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