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to capacitate

to capacitate

1 8.5
To give someone the skills or tools to do a job
  • verb
  • /kəˈpæsɪˌteɪt/
  • Formal
translation icon : capacitar
  • The workshop aims to capacitate teachers with innovative methods to enhance student learning.

Examples

  • The training program is designed to capacitate employees with new skills for the evolving job market.

  • The project has goals to capacitate Physical Education students, theoretically and methodologically, to work with older adults and to offer the latter a space for physical activities, cultural experiences, inter- and intra-generational integration, and the development of their self-knowledge, self-esteem, independence, and autonomy.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Through financial incentives, firms and workers received positive signals, as well as capacitating support that convinced them that participation in privatization would bring future rewards.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Our goal is to capacitate volunteers so they can effectively support the community during emergencies.

Synonyms

to enable
vsto capacitate
459 2.3

To give someone the ability or chance to do something

focuses on preparing specifically for a particular function or activity
to equip
vsto capacitate
276 3.2

To give people and things the tools or skills needed for a task

includes giving ability or opportunity not only physical supplies
to make it possible
vsto capacitate
88 2.4

To allow someone or something to do what they could not before

focuses on actively preparing someone or something for a particular function
to functionalize
vsto capacitate
  • Specialized
1 8.0

Change a material so it can do a specific job or have a new property

is broader and applies to making things or people capable for many uses

Antonyms

to disable
87 3.5

Make a device or feature stop working

to hinder
75 3.6

To make it difficult for people or things to do something

How Capable

to empower
157 4.2
to capacitate
  • Formal
1 8.5
to enable
459 2.3
to assist
605 1.0
help
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

capacitate infinitive
capacitated past
capacitated past participle
capacitating present participle
capacitates third person singular

Morphology

capacitate = capacity (transparent) = capacity + ate

Formed by adding the productive verbal suffix '-ate' to 'capacity' (make capable), so the meaning 'to make capable' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Capacitate comes from the same root as capacity and capable, an old Latin idea of being 'able' or 'to hold'. So to capacitate someone or something is to give them the 'capacity' or ability to do a particular job.