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Enable is defined as to make something possible.

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An example of enable is giving someone money to pay for a car.

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See enable in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb enabled, enabling

1. to make able; provide with means, opportunity, power, or authority: financial aid enabled Lou to attend college
2. to authorize, allow, or permit: legislation enabling free trade, software enabling computer network access
to make possible or effective; specif., to make possible or support the dysfunctional behavior of (someone), as by denying it exists or compensating for it in some way

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enabler noun

See enable in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb en·a·bled, en·a·bling, en·a·bles

a. To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity; make able: a hole in the fence that enabled us to watch; techniques that enable surgeons to open and repair the heart.
b. To make feasible or possible: funds that will enable construction of new schools.
To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to: a law enabling the new federal agency.
To make operational; activate: enabled the computer's modem; enable a nuclear warhead.

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en·aˈbler noun

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