enabling

Thân thiện

The committee passed an enabling resolution to fund the new park.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Providing the legal authority, power, or means to do something: "Enabling" describes something that grants the official capacity, permission, or necessary conditions for an action or process to occur.
   • Facilitating or making possible: It can also describe something that creates favorable conditions or removes obstacles, allowing something to happen or exist.

Usage and Examples

• Adjective:
  • The government passed an enabling act, granting the council new regulatory powers.
  • Access to education is an enabling factor for economic development.
  • The software includes enabling technologies that make complex tasks simple.

Advanced Usage

• "Enabling legislation": A law that provides the authority and framework for a government agency to create and enforce detailed rules and regulations.

  • The new agency was created by enabling legislation passed last year.

• "Enabling environment": A set of interconnected conditions (legal, social, economic) that allow a particular activity or sector to thrive.

  • The conference focused on creating an enabling environment for small businesses.

Variants and Related Words

• Enable (verb): To give someone or something the authority, means, or ability to do something.

  • This software enables users to edit videos easily.

• Enabler (noun): A person or thing that makes something possible. (Note: In some contexts, especially psychology, it can have a negative connotation of someone who allows another's harmful behavior to continue.)

  • Technology is a great enabler of remote work.

Synonyms

• Empowering: Giving authority or power to.
• Facilitating: Making an action or process easier.
• Authorizing: Giving official permission for or approval to.

Antonyms

• Disabling: Depriving of capability or legal power.
• Preventing: Stopping something from happening.
• Prohibiting: Formally forbidding by law, rule, or other authority.

Related Phrases and Concepts

• Enabling clause: A provision in a statute or constitution that grants a specific power.

  • The treaty's enabling clause allowed for special trade agreements.

• Enabling power: The legal authority granted by a statute to an executive body to make detailed rules.

  • The minister acted under the enabling powers of the Health Act.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. providing legal power or sanction
   • an enabling resolution
   • enabling power