empower
[em-pou-er]
- to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means: I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.
- to enable or permit: Wealth empowered him to live a comfortable life.
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Origin of empower
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acceptanceacknowledgmentlicenseadmissionendorsementagreementdispensationpermitprivilegeapprovalconcessionwarrantrecognitionokaypermissionconsentblessingassentgo-aheadclearanceExamples from the Web for empowerment
Contemporary Examples
Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.
The mission is to teach any person to use technology for independence and empowerment no matter where they are located.
When A-LIFE began, Page was working on an education and empowerment project with young girls in Liberia.
McChrystal argues that service confers empathy, patience, discipline, willingness to sacrifice, and a sense of empowerment.
Perry is a pop general, perched atop a candy rainbow, bathing her army of fans in an elixir of empowerment.
Historical Examples
For the sake of its enrichment and its empowerment he subjected himself to rigorous disciplines.
Modern Religious Cults and MovementsGaius Glenn Atkins
There is no higher form of empowerment than in the fulfillment of our individual possibilities.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
Empowerment means to facilitate developments that maintain distinctions and result from differences, instead of uniformity.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin
Empowerment Zones have been creating these opportunities for five years now.
empowerment
- the giving or delegation of power or authority; authorization
- the giving of an ability; enablement or permission
- (in South Africa) a policy of providing special opportunities in employment, training, etc for Black people and others disadvantaged under apartheid
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empower
- to give or delegate power or authority to; authorize
- to give ability to; enable or permit
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Word Origin and History for empowerment
empower
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