Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make easy or easier.
- transitive verb To lead (a discussion), as by asking questions, mediating between opposing viewpoints, or ensuring that all participants' views are heard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make easy; render less difficult; free wholly or partially from difficulty or impediment; lessen the labor of: as, to
facilitate learning by suitable appliances.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
easy oreasier . - verb To help bring about
- verb To
preside over (a meeting, a seminar)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make easier
- verb increase the likelihood of (a response)
- verb be of use
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What research has shown though is that the interruptions that emails and phone calls facilitate affect our ability to remember things.
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Almost all non-functional programmers are unaware that tail calls facilitate a programming paradigm that they have never seen.
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Calliflower Premium is designed to help business users of Web conference-calling facilitate active participation in calls, share agendas and documents, coordinate participants 'schedules, capture and share information discussed during conferences, and manage agreements, action items and follow-ups to keep projects moving.
Low End Mac 2008
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Graham, who represents several neighborhoods with high concentrations of Hispanic residents, said the legislation would "facilitate" the granting of drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants.
Need a Social Security number to drive? Maybe not in D.C. Tim Craig 2011
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At one point during the interrogation he was visited by three FBI agents who asked similar questions and agreed to "facilitate" his release if he would provide them information.
Daphne Eviatar: Is Proxy Detention the Obama Administration's Extraordinary Rendition-Lite? Daphne Eviatar 2011
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Ambassador Margaret Scobey that the shift was made to "facilitate" better relations with Egypt's government.
Follow the Egyptian money Glenn Kessler 2011
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At one point during the interrogation he was visited by three FBI agents who asked similar questions and agreed to "facilitate" his release if he would provide them information.
Daphne Eviatar: Is Proxy Detention the Obama Administration's Extraordinary Rendition-Lite? Daphne Eviatar 2011
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At one point during the interrogation he was visited by three FBI agents who asked similar questions and agreed to "facilitate" his release if he would provide them information.
Daphne Eviatar: Is Proxy Detention the Obama Administration's Extraordinary Rendition-Lite? Daphne Eviatar 2011
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At one point during the interrogation he was visited by three FBI agents who asked similar questions and agreed to "facilitate" his release if he would provide them information.
Daphne Eviatar: Is Proxy Detention the Obama Administration's Extraordinary Rendition-Lite? Daphne Eviatar 2011
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Beijing was particularly irked by her offer to have Washington "facilitate" such initiatives.
beagles commented on the word facilitate
to make easier
June 21, 2011