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Empower vs. Enable — What's the Difference?

Empower vs. Enable — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Empower and Enable

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Empower

Give (someone) the authority or power to do something
Members are empowered to audit the accounts of limited companies

Enable

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.

Empower

To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.

Enable

To make feasible or possible
Funds that will enable construction of new schools.

Empower

To equip or supply with an ability; enable
"Computers ... empower students to become intellectual explorers" (Edward B. Fiske).
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Enable

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

Empower

(transitive) To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.

Enable

To make operational; activate
Enabled the computer's modem.
Enable a nuclear warhead.

Empower

(transitive) To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.

Enable

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

Empower

To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.

Enable

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.

Empower

To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to.

Enable

To affirm; to make firm and strong.

Empower

To enable or permit; to give more opportunity for independent action.

Enable

To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.

Empower

Give or delegate power or authority to;
She authorized her assistant to sign the papers

Enable

To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.

Empower

Give qualities or abilities to

Enable

To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.

Enable

(electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.

Enable

To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

Enable

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power.

Enable

To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Enable

Render capable or able for some task;
This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street
The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain

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