(~s, enabling, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If someone or something ~s you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it.
The new test should ~ doctors to detect the disease early.
VERB: V n to-inf
enabling
Researchers describe it as an enabling technology.
ADJ
2.
To ~ something to happen means to make it possible for it to happen.
The hot sun ~s the grapes to reach optimum ripeness...
The working class is still too small to ~ a successful socialist revolution.
VERB: V n to-inf, V n
3.
To ~ someone to do something means to give them permission or the right to do it.
...the republic’s legislation which ~s young people to do a form of alternative service.
VERB: V n to-inf
enabling
Some protection for victims must be written into the enabling legislation.
ADJ: ADJ n