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enabler

[ en-ey-bler ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that enables something, or makes it possible:
Technology is a key enabler of efficiency and productivity.
a person who enables or supports someone else’s bad or dysfunctional behavior:
His wife is an unwitting enabler who makes excuses for his drinking.

Origin of enabler¹

First recorded in 1610–20; 1975–80 enabler fordef 2

An important enabler of this abuse is the shrugs of the untouched, whose rising shoulders prop up the toxic world.

Yet Peres did the same: he was the original enabler of the settlement project, but now wants to withdraw from most of them.

“Centre County was an enabler to him,” Long wrote in an email to The Daily Beast.

“In many ways I think she functioned as an enabler for the regime,” he says.

His transformation from anti-sex crusader to adultery enabler has been overnight.

But they are mine because they are his, and he is the demander and enabler of love.

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