enabling

en·a·ble

 (ĕ-nā′bəl)

tr.v. en·a·bled, en·a·bling, en·a·bles

1.

a. To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able: a hole in the fence that enabled us to watch; techniques that enable surgeons to repair the heart.

b. To make feasible or possible: funds that will enable construction of new schools.

2. To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to: a law enabling a new federal agency.

3. To make operational; activate: enabled the computer's modem; enable a nuclear warhead.

4. To behave in a manner that facilitates or supports (another's abusive, addictive, or self-destructive behavior).

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en·a′bler n.

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enabling

(ɪnˈeɪbəlɪŋ)

adj

providing the power, means, opportunity, or authority to allow someone to do something

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en•a•bling

(ɛnˈeɪ blɪŋ)

adj.

conferring legal power or sanction, as by removing a disability: an enabling act.

[1670–80]

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

enabling - providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling resolution"; "enabling power" disqualifying, disabling - depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified; "certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship"

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Translations

abilitante

enabling

[ɪnˈeɪb^əlɪŋ] adj

(LAW) [legislation] → d'application; [act] → d'habilitation

(= fostering personal development) [state] → progressiste
an enabling school → une école qui encourage le développement personnelenabling technology n
The Internet is an enabling technology → Internet est un outil puissant.

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enabling

adj

enabling legislation → Ermächtigungsgesetze pl; enabling act/law → Ermächtigungsgesetz nt

(= empowering) to play an enabling role in something → etw möglich machen; enabling technology → Hilfstechnologie f

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