Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group.
- n. The process of supporting another person or persons to discover and claim personal power.
- n. The state of being empowered (either generally, or specifically).
- n. South Africa Government programs encouraging advancement of blacks.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant
Etymologies
- empower + -ment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term empowerment is used frequently today; unfortunately, many people using the term do not really understand what it means.”
“They use tricks and gimmicks to electrify their audiences under the label empowerment, overcoming limitations and more with the promises of wealth and happiness.”
“As one of the premier buzzwords from the total quality movement, the word empowerment has been overused and sometimes misunderstood.”
“Klinsmann will use the word "empowerment" when he gathers in his first training squad before the Mexico game next week.”
“Political empowerment is the key to changing our education system for the better.”
The Huffington Post: Jalen Rose: Voter Education Equals Improving Our Educational System
“I believe that humanity's advances are made by individuals, and helped along by empowerment of that individual, and that most of this empowerment is in the sense of getting the hell out of their way - rogue individuals have consistently had to buck th ...”
“The first way we can help fuel women's empowerment is the most obvious: Accelerating women's leadership within our own four walls.”
The Huffington Post: Muhtar Kent: This Century Goes to the Women
“Other leaders told us that the day was in some respects an epiphany -- now they understand why women's empowerment is such a critical global issue of our day.”
The Huffington Post: Isobel Coleman: The Week at the Clinton Global Initiative
“Berman's script, despite a slight lean toward preachy empowerment, is surprisingly engaging.”
“Do you think because you passed a law in Rhode Island that somehow sex worker empowerment is going to disappear?”
Donna Hughes and the anti rights activists victory in Rhode Island « Bound, Not Gagged
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘empowerment’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 124 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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voidwords
Any word or phrase considered to be a voidword or vacuism (i.e. virtually meaningless in general useage).
sustainable devel..., carbon neutral, empowerment, facilitate, proactive, globalisation, new, progressive, compassionate con..., modernism, postmodernism, inappropriate and 5 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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BINGO!
Entries from the corporate hall of shame. (There are many wordie versions of this list - please link to yours in the comments section - thanks!)
to architect, to incentivize, drill down, loop back, low-hanging fruit, pre-plan, customer-focused, best of brand, conversate, think outside the..., paradigm shift, going forward and 99 more...
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Spam Names
Interesting words that came to me in spam emails in the "From" field. Read in pairs by order added, add the initial of your choice, and you'll get a list of "names."
menominee, burbled, abrasives, barrister, unfortunates, strolls, appareled, uncles, removal, elusive, significance, described and 180 more...
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simpleimage's list
Words that inspire leadership
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dislikes
milieu, empowerment, facilitator, guesstimate, awesome, issues, genre, gig, dinkum, proactive, whilst, bitching and 5 more...
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Words and Pseudo-words That Annoy me
If I could burn words, I would burn these. ;P
irregardless, utilize, downsize, reorganization, gravitas, micromanage, can-do, paradigm, proactive, empowerment, dialogue, vertical and 29 more...
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Buzz Words
synergy, holistic, framework, paradigm, empowerment, leverage, aggregator, brand, collaboration, downsize, immersion, mindshare and 10 more...
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Irritating words
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gayle's cringe words
Words that somehow make me cringe.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for empowerment.
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