3 meanings: 1. to provide (someone) with adequate power, means, opportunity, or authority (to do something) 2. to make possible.... Click for more definitions.
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Enable definition: to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to. See examples of ENABLE used in a sentence.
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1. to make able; provide with means, ability, or opportunity: A scholarship enabled her to attend college. 2. to make possible or easy: Lack of witnesses enabled him to get away with the crime. 3. to authorize; empower: documents enabling them to enter the building. 4. to make ready; equip (often used in combination): Web-enabled cell phones.
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enable. en•a•ble /ɛnˈeɪbəl/ v. [~ + object + to + verb], -bled, -bling. give power or ability: The money will enable us to hire more workers. en•a•ble (en ā′ bəl), v.t., -bled, -bling. authorize: This document will enable him to pass through the enemy lines unmolested.
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When you make something possible, you enable it. Your good grades might enable you to get into your first-choice college. And a great teacher enabled you to get such good grades. Enable has taken on the meaning of allowing or even helping someone continue to do something they really shouldn't.
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ENABLE definition: 1. to make someone able to do something, or to make something possible: 2. to allow or make it…. Learn more.
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1. If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it. [...] 2. To enable something to happen means to make it possible for it to happen. [...] 3. To enable someone to do something means to give them permission or the right to do it. [...]
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to make someone able to do something, or to make something possible: [ + to do sth ] This money has enabled me to buy a new computer. Fewer examples. The aim is to enable each patient to have a good quality of life. Studying here will enable me to get a job in the music business.
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enable something (computing) to make a system, device or feature ready to use. To enable this feature, go to Account Settings and click ‘Security’.
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1. a. : to provide with the means or opportunity. training that enables people to earn a living. b. : to make possible, practical, or easy. a deal that would enable passage of a new law. c. : to cause to operate. software that enables the keyboard. 2. : to give legal power, capacity, or sanction to. a law enabling admission of a state.
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