Definition of empower in English:

verb

• 1Give (someone) the authority or power to do something.

  ‘members are empowered to audit the accounts of limited companies’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Smith was also empowered to make arrangements for a mass meeting, but action was delayed until the following month.’
  • ‘The U.N. has never established a court empowered to do so.’
  • ‘New cabinet members are not legally empowered because they have not been officially appointed yet.’
  • ‘Of course, that cannot begin until the board is established and empowered to act.’
  • ‘Thus the organization is empowered to issue punishment if it determines rules were violated.’
  • ‘All uniformed Metro offices are empowered to issue traffic fines.’
  • ‘Current legislation empowers the Financial Supervision Commission to sanction banks that use misleading advertisements.’
  • ‘The Director of Public Prosecutions is the only person empowered to grant immunity.’
  • ‘Local officials were empowered to impose curfews in 38 towns and cities.’
  • ‘Article 19 of that law empowered the president to name the commander in chief.’
  • ‘The police are empowered to investigate crime, search for evidence, arrest suspected offenders and question them.’
  • ‘At present, however, conservation districts simply are not empowered to deal with drainage.’
  • ‘There is a reason why the police are the only ones empowered to deal with moving traffic offences.’
  • ‘The reason is that these are private schools and the Education Act does not empower the Minister of Education to control such schools.’

  Synonyms

  authorize, license, entitle, permit, allow, sanction, warrant, commission, delegate, certify, accredit, qualify

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  1. 1.1with object Make (someone) stronger and more confident, especially in controlling their life and claiming their rights.
     ‘movements to empower the poor’
     More example sentences

     • ‘Afrikaner women were newly empowered by more extensive literacy and the franchise.’
     • ‘Newly empowered consumers can appropriate and manipulate the brand in whatever way they want.’
     • ‘An economically empowered community may be able thereafter to access other health services.’
     • ‘Global health institutions can also empower individuals and groups in national and global forums.’
     • ‘I believe that a truly empowered woman would give birth without assistance.’
     • ‘Think of how much more empowered young people would be if schools discussed and analyzed what marketing really accomplishes.’
     • ‘He has actually empowered women much more than other Zen teachers in Korea.’
     • ‘Television has certainly begun to show women as far more empowered citizens than they were in the 1950s.’
     • ‘And so empowering people, giving them choices, is what this is about.’
     • ‘Do you think consumer laws have empowered the patients'?’
     • ‘Only then can patients be fully empowered, and with that power comes self responsibility.’
     • ‘In either case, the Web does not seem to have empowered local individuals.’
     • ‘In this area, as in many, technology is empowering the little guy.’
     • ‘‘The power of an organisation cannot be fully realised unless you empower people and allow them to be the best that they can be,’ he said.’
     • ‘Giving more powers to the local bodies means empowering the local people.’
     • ‘He delegates well and empowers the people who work for him.’
     • ‘Second, most managers were committed to empowering the teams and allowing the teams to do their jobs with little or no interference.’
     • ‘The licensing agreements they advocate empower consumers, instead of limiting their rights.’
     • ‘Successful individuals know how to empower people because the higher you are in a leadership position, the less you can afford to micromanage the efforts of people.’
     • ‘Separation is not psychologically satisfying or emotionally empowering for some individuals.’
     • ‘Her ultimate ambition is to empower and enable people through educational achievement.’
     Synonyms

     emancipate, unyoke, unfetter, unshackle, unchain, set free, give freedom to

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