| query | If someone or something e______ you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it.If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it. The new test should enable doctors to detect the disease early. ...a new charter for training to enable young people to make the most of their potential. Researchers describe it as an enabling technology. |
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| word | enable |
| full-definition | verb If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it. The new test should enable doctors to detect the disease early. ...a new charter for training to enable young people to make the most of their potential. Researchers describe it as an enabling technology. To enable something to happen means to make it possible for it to happen. The hot sun enables the grapes to reach optimum ripeness. A series of holes in the side panels enables the position of the shelves to be adjusted. The working class is still too small to enable a successful socialist revolution. To enable someone to do something means to give them permission or the right to do it. The republic's legislation enables young people to do a form of alternative service. Some protection for victims must be written into the enabling legislation. |
| inflections | enablesenablingenabledenablingenabling |
| cefr-level | B2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2
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