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enabler

enabler

11 4.6
Something that helps people or groups succeed
  • noun
  • /ɪˈneɪblər/
translation icon : facilitador
  • The mentor acted as a crucial enabler, providing support and guidance to help the students reach their goals.
  • enablers of achievement
  • academic enablers
  • enabler of success

It has been an incredible enabler to our relationship.

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Examples

  • Identify specific academic enablers and provide evidence to support their relationship with achievement.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The new training program serves as an enabler for employees to enhance their skills and advance their careers.

  • So our physical body, our brain, our biology is just an enabler for your intelligence and who you are as a person.

  • Student motivation as an academic enabler for school success is discussed.

    Academic text (2002)
  • We're the number one enabler of the Google Android ecosystem.

  • And so electrochemistry is the key enabler for that as well.

  • It has been an incredible enabler to our relationship.

  • It's worth thinking about as to what were critical enablers of the digital revolution.

  • A related objective was to explore the relative contributions of specific academic enablers to student achievement in language arts.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Collectively, these seven articles provide an overview of current knowledge regarding academic enablers and the practical applications of this knowledge.

    Academic text (2002)

Synonyms

encourager
vsenabler
1 2.7

A person who supports others and makes them feel confident

creates conditions that actually make achievement possible through resources
allower
vsenabler
6.9

A person or thing that lets something happen

makes success or function achievable rather than only granting permission
effecter
vsenabler
9.9

A person or thing that makes something happen

creates conditions that make something happen rather than causing it directly

How Enabling

catalyst
55 5.0
enabler
11 4.6
facilitator
33 5.1
helper
79 1.0
supporter
817 1.0

Surface Forms

enabler singular
enablers plural

Morphology

enabler = enable (transparent) = enable + er

Clear agentive formation from the verb 'enable' yielding 'one who enables'; meaning is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

Enabler comes from the verb enable, which splits into en- 'make' and able 'can', so an enabler is literally someone or something that 'makes able'. That's why we call a good mentor, a useful tool, or clear communication an enabler of success.