empowered
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empowered
adjective more empowered · most empowered
- Having been given powers. Empowered staff deliver the goods and exceed your expectations. Disempowered staff develop a 'sullen obedience' where they stop driving new initiatives and just await orders.
- Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation. Policy moderation in the past, I argued above, has depended on a coalition between civic elites and newly empowered minorities—or at least a resolve by civic elites to discourage a racially polarizing politics of law and order.
- Acting with confidence.
verb
- simple past and past participle of empower
noun empowereds
- One who is empowered. The category of sex tourism, which assimilates phenomena ranging from southeast Asian brothels run for foreign men by international crime cartels with the covert support of national governments (see Hall, 1992 and Truong, 1990) to the 'sugar mummie' phenomenon wherein older women tourists travel to
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Closest in meaning: authorized, sceptred, sceptered, competency, able, enabling, capable, enable, enabled, competent, competence, permitted, allowed, power, skilled, approved
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