facilitate

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• It is necessary to create a new system parallel with the existing dysfunctional system in order to mitigate the inevitable economic and financial damage and to facilitate, as seamless as possible, the transition to a functioning financial system or new model of credit and banking.

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

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  • What's worse is when health workers facilitate or condone it as recently reported in a study done in Turkey. —  Atlas Shrugs
  • Marge Schneider, a spokeswoman for Putnam Hospital Center, said the center could not comment on the specific case, but that it is extremely rare to facilitate organ donations there because it is not a trauma center.
  • PLAY THERAPY • enables patient to experience intense emotion in a safe environment with the use of play • children express themselves more easily in play. revealing as reflection of child's situation in the family • provide toys and materials - facilitate interaction - observe and help child resolve problems through play —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The controversy, if you can call it such, is that some say that compositing window managers and the effects they facilitate are nothing but useless bling, which add nothing to the desktop experience, and only hog system resources for no apparent reason. —  OSNews
  • Outreach Director to facilitate, manage and develop its extensive —  BifSniff
 

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facilitate:   facilitating ·  facilitated ·  facilitates
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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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