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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
- 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.
- 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?
- Jane's language skills enabled her to forge ahead on the career ladder.
- 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 enables more active forms of mobilization, with many memberships engaged in various forms of collective action, often for the first times in their history.
- 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.
- Hanging on paper, and yet weighed down by leavy burdens* Trade necefijury to Enable us to fuppbrt an enox - motts debt; and yet that debt, together with an excefs of paper* money, working continually towards the dcftruAion of trade. — The Monthly Review
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- To be reliable, a cognitive mechanism must enable a person to discriminate or differentiate between incompatible states of affairs.