Third-person singular present tense of conduce; leads to, contributes toward, or helps promote something.
From 'conduce,' with '-s' forming the third-person singular present tense.
In academic and formal writing, 'conduces' appears in sentences about causation—'This policy conduces to greater equality'—where the writer wants to sound especially learned and formal about how one thing leads to another.
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