[
UK
/ɛnˈeɪbəl/
]
[ US /ɛˈneɪbəɫ, ɪˈneɪbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ɛˈneɪbəɫ, ɪˈneɪbəɫ/ ]
VERB
-
render capable or able for some task
The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain
This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street
How To Use enable In A Sentence
- So, did it take a row over a ban on journalists to enable him to penetrate the secret that the regime is not a model of benignity?
- A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
- Jane's language skills enabled her to forge ahead on the career ladder.
- This enables more active forms of mobilization, with many memberships engaged in various forms of collective action, often for the first times in their history.
- This argument is untenable from an intellectual, moral and practical standpoint.
- This scheme enables you to budget the cost through fixed monthly payments.
- The role enables the researcher to gain the confidence of the group that accepts her in her false role.
- This in turn has triggered the disappearance of a system of symbols that once enabled immediate identification of a woman's status.
- She might be more amenable to the idea if you explained how much money it would save.
- But it is precisely the familiarity of the urban terrain to those who live there that enables them to use it to the advantages of ambushes, surprise attacks and rapid redeployment.