empower
vt
(=make stronger, more independent)
[+person, group, minority] responsabiliser
→ Education remains the best way of empowering the underprivileged.
→ What I'm trying to do is to empower people, to give them ways to help them get well.
→ networks and institutions to empower women working as domestic servants
(=authorize)
to empower sb to do sth habiliter qn à faire qch
→ The Act of 1936 empowered the police to ban political processions.
→ The army is now empowered to operate on a shoot-to-kill basis.
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