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Meaning of "enabler" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENABLER

enabler  [ɪˈneɪblə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENABLER

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Enabler is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENABLER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Enabling

Enabling is a term with a double meaning in psychotherapy and mental health. As a positive term, enabling references patterns of interaction which allow individuals to develop and grow. These patterns may be on any scale, for example within the family, or in wider society as "Enabling acts" designed to empower some group, or create a new authority for a body. In a negative sense, enabling is also used to describe dysfunctional behavior approaches that are intended to help resolve a specific problem but in fact may perpetuate or exacerbate the problem. A common theme of enabling in this latter sense is that third parties take responsibility, blame, or make accommodations for a person's harmful conduct. The practical effect is that the person himself or herself does not have to do so, and is shielded from awareness of the harm it may do, and the need or pressure to change. Enabling in this sense is a major environmental cause of addiction. A common example of enabling can be observed in the relationship between the alcoholic/addict and a codependent spouse.

Definition of enabler in the English dictionary

The definition of enabler in the dictionary is a person, group or organization that provides someone with adequate power, means, opportunity, or authority to do something.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENABLER


Ambler
ˈæmblə
assembler
əˈsɛmblə
cobbler
ˈkɒblə
diable
diːˈɑːblə
disabler
dɪsˈeɪblə
dribbler
ˈdrɪblə
gambler
ˈɡæmblə
nabla
ˈnæblə
nibbler
ˈnɪblə
qibla
ˈkɪblə
quibbler
ˈkwɪblə
rambla
ˈrɑːmblə
rambler
ˈræmblə
scrambler
ˈskræmblə
scribbler
ˈskrɪblə
stibbler
ˈstɪblə
tabla
ˈtʌblə
temblor
ˈtɛmblə
tumbler
ˈtʌmblə
warbler
ˈwɔːblə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENABLER

enable
enablement
enabling
enabling act
enabling legislation
enabling technology
enact
enactable
enaction
enactive
enactment
enactor
enactory
enacture
enalapril
enallage
enamel
enamel paint
enamel painting
enameled

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENABLER

bubbler
cabler
dabbler
descrambler
doubler
fabler
gobbler
grumbler
humbler
redoubler
reed warbler
rumbler
scambler
stabler
stumbler
trembler
troubler
unscrambler
willow warbler
wobbler

Synonyms and antonyms of enabler in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «enabler» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENABLER

Find out the translation of enabler to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of enabler from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «enabler» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

启用
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

habilitador
570 millions of speakers

English

enabler
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संबल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تمكين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Enabler
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enabler
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সক্রিয়করণকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

facilitateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Enabler
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Enabler
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

イネイブラー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

작동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Enabler
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tạo khả năng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

इनबलर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

enabler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

enabler
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

umożliwiającym
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Enabler
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

factor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

enabler
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

enabler
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

enabler
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

enabler
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of enabler

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about enabler

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6 QUOTES WITH «ENABLER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word enabler.
1
Jane Chen
Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.
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Joshua Ferris
The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.
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Jefferson Han
I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.
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Daryl Hannah
I'd like to be a giant enabler.
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Diane Keaton
My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
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Clement Mok
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENABLER»

Discover the use of enabler in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enabler and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Enabler: When Helping Hurts the Ones You Love
Angelyn MillerÂ's own experience is a dramatic example: neither she nor her husband drank, yet her family was floundering in that same dynamic.
Angelyn Miller, 2008
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The Enabler Criterion "Leadership" of the EFQM Model: Six ...
The insights gained out of this part will be relevant for the further sections. Followed by this, the banks will be compared in this essay using each one of the leadership sub criteria separately one after the other.
Alexander Stimpfle, 2011
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Generalist Practice with Organizations and Communities
Figures 1.4 through 1.15 illustrate a variety of possible social work roles characteristic of macro generalist practice. They include enabler, mediator, integrator/coordinator, general manager, educator, analyst/evaluator, broker, facilitator, initiator ...
Karen Kirst-Ashman, Grafton Hull, Jr., 2008
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Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment
Enabler In the enabler role, a worker helps a client cope with various stresses ranging from crisis situations like divorce or job loss to community issues such as inadequate housing or day care. Skills used in the enabler role include “ conveying ...
Charles Zastrow, Karen Kirst-Ashman, 2009
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Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing ...
To date the acculturation enabler has high credibility, reliability, and confirmability as it has been used with many cultures over the past five decades to identify specific characteristics or patterns of a culture bearing on cultural aspects, care, ...
Madeleine M. Leininger, Marilyn R. McFarland, 2006
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Strategic Fund Development: Building Profitable ...
The enabler understands all four relationships that are critical to effective organizations and productive fund development. The enabler pays particular attention to the relationship with constituents and within the organization, because these ...
Simone P. Joyaux, 2001
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Everything You Need to Know about an Alcoholic Parent
Family. Roles. In a dysfunctional family, especially an alcoholic one, every member takes on different behavior patterns. • The Enabler. The enabler (also called a codepen- dent) is usually the alcoholics husband or wife. But the child of an ...
Nancy Shuker, 1998
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Therapist's Guide to Clinical Intervention: The 1-2-3's of ...
Tragically, the enabler's well- intentioned behavior plays an increasingly destructive role in the progression of the illness/ dysfunctional behaviors. The enabler continues their behavior because they see all that they have done as a sincere ...
Sharon L. Johnson, 2004
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Social Work with Groups: A Comprehensive Workbook
(It should be noted that this definition of the term enabler is very different from the definition used in reference to chemical dependency. There the term refers to a family member or friend who facilitates the substance abuser in persisting in the ...
Charles Zastrow, 2008
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The Open Mobile Alliance: Delivering Service Enablers for ...
introduced the concept of the Enabler Release. The Enabler Release is a work package centered around a single enabler, and contains the entire documentation set relevant to the enabler, but nothing more. The OMA supports two types of ...
Michael Brenner, Musa Unmehopa, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENABLER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term enabler is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why Finance Would Be "Running Blind" without Real-Time
“We view ourselves as an enabler, rather than as one who controls.” Moving from the shadows of the back-end to helping generate revenue ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
2
Lytro sprinkles some VR magic on its flagship camera and software
Lytro wants to transform from a novel consumer camera company into an enabler of virtual reality experiences. To lay the groundwork for the ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
3
All-flash is a synonym for a tough market
Flash is just a feature. Flash is an enabler for a more agile storage infrastructure, but it's not the only one. And in many cases infrastructure and ... «The Register, Jul 15»
4
Seven Industry Players Offer Their Take On Tokens
... across payment methods, from both a consumer and merchant perspective, and the key enabler in that acceleration has been tokenization. «PYMNTS.com, Jul 15»
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Digital Identity In the Physical World
We become the enabler; what we're doing in Europe in that regard stands up to what Visa and MasterCard have similarly done in the United ... «PYMNTS.com, Jul 15»
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Enterprise-class Wi-Fi for the SMB: 15 best practices from the field
And that's unfortunate, because when done right, Wi-Fi is an enabler for connecting us wherever, whenever. Why can't most organizations get ... «BetaNews, Jul 15»
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ESPN Won't Renew Keith Olbermann's Contract
Last fall, during the height of the Ray Rice debacle, Mr. Olbermann characterized the commish as an "enabler of men who beat women" before ... «AdAge.com, Jul 15»
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Twice Convicted Illegal Alien Radical Community Organizer Uses …
Francisco Aguirre-Velasquez, 36, isn't some well intentioned immigrant pursuing the American Dream; he's a professional job-thief enabler ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
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E-commerce enabler Unicommerce floats a free 'Lite' version of its …
Delhi-based Unicommerce eSolutions Pvt Ltd, which operates multi-channel order fulfillment software Uniware, will make a 'Lite' version of its ... «VC Circle, Jul 15»
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WhatsApp Download On Every iPhone – WhatsApp Web Enabler
WhatsApp Web is an option that is found on the Android version of the WhatsApp application. However, in case you own an iPhone that's not ... «Press and Update, Jul 15»

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