enable
[en-ey-buh l]
- to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to; authorize: This document will enable him to pass through the enemy lines unmolested.
- to make possible or easy: Aeronautics enables us to overcome great distances.
- to make ready; equip (often used in combination): web-enabled cell phones.
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Origin of enable
Synonyms
See more synonyms for enable on Thesaurus.com1. empower, qualify, allow, permit.
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Examples from the Web for enabler
Contemporary Examples
“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.
He was incredibly dedicated to John, extremely loyal, probably spoiled him a little too much, maybe an enabler in some ways.
So when Sadow called Brown an “enabler”—likely meaning that Brown benefitted from the case—he was partly right.
Then you go home and your wife Susan calls you an “enabler.”
Historical Examples
But they are mine because they are his, and he is the demander and enabler of love.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
enable
- to provide (someone) with adequate power, means, opportunity, or authority (to do something)
- to make possible
- to put (a digital electronic circuit element) into an operative condition by supplying a suitable input pulse
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Word Origin and History for enabler
n.
1610s, agent noun from enable.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper