facilitate

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But we all can help and facilitate, and we will do so.

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  1. transitive verb To make easy or easier: political agreements that facilitated troop withdrawals.

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  • I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity and existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government, and to redress wrongs already long enough endured. —  The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • Does his book, as its original title claimed, facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition? —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3
  • Ron Shindel, former NYPD deputy inspector, how could clamping down on the autopsy report minutes before it ` s to be released facilitate -- facilitate the investigation? —  CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2009
  • But we all can help and facilitate, and we will do so. —  CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2005
  • - —  Duma Key
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French faciliter, from Old French, from Italian facilitare, from facile, facile, from Latin facilis; see facile.

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  1. With suffix -ate, from French faciliter (= Spanish Portuguese facilitar = Italian facilitare), make easy, from Latin facilita(t-)s, facility: see facility.
 

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/fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/
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