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Empowered

[em-pou-er]

verb (used with object)

to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means: I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.

to enable or permit: Wealth empowered him to live a comfortable life.

Origin:
1645–55; em-¹ + power

Related forms

em·pow·er·ment, noun

un·em·pow·ered, adjective

Synonyms
1. warrant, commission, license, qualify.

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But the tide of development may be stemmed by a newly empowered force: the neighbors.

They also wanted to be a part of college campus that empowered them both culturally and academically.

So, you are empowered, but you are not empowered alone.

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But the tide of development may be stemmed by a newly empowered force: the neighbors.

They also wanted to be a part of college campus that empowered them both culturally and academically.

So, you are empowered, but you are not empowered alone.

Empowered with knowledge, these ambitious young women now have the skills necessary to earn an income.

Tiny dust grains, empowered by the sun, pose big problems on the moon.

Science has empowered us to detect and sense the world around us.

The goal was to turn the newly empowered organizers into leaders of a true movement.

He is empowered to carry on the business for thirty days.

We created market alternatives and empowered consumers.

The subordinates were then divided into two further groups: powerless and empowered.

Empowered by a trance, an old man lays hands on a girl to draw out what he sees as a spiritual sickness that.

Consumers will finally be empowered as they navigate throughout the daunting health care system.

His genius has empowered a whole new generation of creative people.

Facebook has empowered my dad, his family and his friends.

In many states they are legally empowered to diagnose and treat illness and prescribe certain medications.

Each group then feels invested and empowered in their decision, their education, and the outcome.

Its researchers noted that consumers feel empowered by saving even trivial sums of.

Religion is being used as a cover for social unrest, a way to empower these people who are not empowered.

As the author stated, feeling normally empowered doesn't necessarily signal power to others.

Coincidentally, contraception has always empowered women.

It empowered him to call this world into question and to envision another.

Chinese staff presume that a manager is empowered to make decisions and can do so quickly.

The lady was so empowered at the end that she really didn't need a therapy dog.

If you were empowered with expansive, no-limit solutions.

They feel abandoned by their parents, not empowered by them.

It makes people feel more empowered to challenge the system.

Experts from both sides will be empowered to alter it at regular intervals.

Similarly, there is no doubt that a person with supporters feels empowered to accomplish some task.

The public today will be better informed, supported and empowered than it was in the past.

It's not about empowered women, it's not about southern belles, and it's not about sociologists.

On education, mayors can support the free schools the government has empowered people to set up:.

Welcome to the new age, when big brother is empowered by technological advances.

The panel is empowered to bar anyone whose presence is deemed a threat to the integrity of the casino industry.

Investors are already returning in droves but it is not yet clear who is empowered to oversee the contracts.

Only the superior courts have been empowered to strike down laws that may be in conflict with sacred laws.

Yet he also empowered millions of people by giving them access to cutting-edge technology.

Most women want peace and security but do not feel empowered to use their moral authority.

Ubiquitous and conspicuous social and mobile connections have empowered social.

In its wake he put two regional divisions, each empowered to look after the private and public sectors in their areas.

Technology empowered people to shape their own destinies.

Fraternities are in part empowered by their status as private.

Only a few concerned citizens force actionsThe root is that people do not feel empowered to ask for implementation of law.

His skills as a storyteller have inspired and empowered generations to tell their stories no matter how bizarre or improbable.

They are able to make choices and are empowered as a result.

They are empowered to negotiate and reach an agreement with sports leaders and with political leaders.

It is empowered to offer amnesty to those who confess.

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Word Origin & History

empower

1650s, used by William Penn in 1690, but the modern popularity dates from 1986; from en- + power.

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