facilitate
English
editEtymology
editEnglish facility + -ate, from French faciliter, from Latin facilis.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editfacilitate (third-person singular simple present facilitates, present participle facilitating, simple past and past participle facilitated)
- To make easy or easier.
- 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
- Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
- 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
- The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs.
- To help bring about.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- But while she was pursuing this thought the good genius of Sophia, or that which presided over the integrity of Mrs Honour, or perhaps mere chance, sent an accident in her way, which at once preserved her fidelity, and even facilitated the intended business.
- To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).
Synonyms
edit- (to make easy or easier): ease
Antonyms
editSenses 1 and 2:
Related terms
editTranslations
editto make easy or easier
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to help bring about
to preside over (a meeting, a seminar)
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Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editfacilitate
- inflection of facilitare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editfacilitate f pl
Anagrams
editLatin
editNoun
editfacilitāte
Romanian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin facilitas through French facilité. Equivalent to facil + -itate.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfacilitate f (plural facilități)
Declension
editDeclension of facilitate
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) facilitate | facilitatea | (niște) facilități | facilitățile |
genitive/dative | (unei) facilități | facilității | (unor) facilități | facilităților |
vocative | facilitate, facilitateo | facilităților |
Spanish
editVerb
editfacilitate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of facilitar combined with te
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