Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make easy or easier: political agreements that facilitated troop withdrawals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make easy; render less difficult; free wholly or partially from difficulty or impediment; lessen the labor of: as, to facilitate learning by suitable appliances.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make easier
- v. increase the likelihood of (a response)
- v. be of use
Etymologies
- French faciliter, from Old French, from Italian facilitare, from facile, facile, from Latin facilis; see facile.
Examples
“What research has shown though is that the interruptions that emails and phone calls facilitate affect our ability to remember things.”
“Almost all non-functional programmers are unaware that tail calls facilitate a programming paradigm that they have never seen.”
“Calliflower Premium is designed to help business users of Web conference-calling facilitate active participation in calls, share agendas and documents, coordinate participants 'schedules, capture and share information discussed during conferences, and manage agreements, action items and follow-ups to keep projects moving.”
“At one point during the interrogation he was visited by three FBI agents who asked similar questions and agreed to "facilitate" his release if he would provide them information.”
“Ambassador Margaret Scobey that the shift was made to "facilitate" better relations with Egypt's government.”
“Graham, who represents several neighborhoods with high concentrations of Hispanic residents, said the legislation would "facilitate" the granting of drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants.”
The Washington Post: Need a Social Security number to drive? Maybe not in D.C.
“Beijing was particularly irked by her offer to have Washington "facilitate" such initiatives.”
“RBS, which under law is required to give its consent to make details of the investigation public, said Wednesday that it will "facilitate" the publication, "subject to any necessary commercial constraints.”
“There were "serious failings" by the prison authorities which did "facilitate" Wright's death, he said, but they were result of "negligence" and were not intentional.”
“According to the White House press office, Jared Bernstein, chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, will "facilitate" the town hall, posing selected questions to the president and even teeing up video queries.”
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