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enabling

The correct spelling is enabling.

How to pronounce enabling

verb

Say it like: Ena-bli-ng

The correct spelling is enabling. To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. For example: "April 16, 2018, Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan writing in The New York Times, ‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption"

Usage Examples

April 16, 2018, Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan writing in The New York Times, ‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption

His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
  2. 2.To affirm; to make firm and strong.
  3. 3.To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
  4. 4.To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
  5. 5.To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.

noun

  1. 1.An act or an instance of something being enabled.

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