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facilitate

/fəˈsɪləˌteɪt/

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What does facilitate mean?

verb

  1. To make easy or easier.
  2. To help bring about.
  3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

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IPA pronunciation

/fəˈsɪləˌteɪt/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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I said I trusted he would so facilitate affairs that I might at an early hour disembarrass myself of my involuntary prisoners.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
A distinction must be made, when the aristocratic and the democratic principles mutually inveigh against each other, as tending to facilitate corruption.
Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America — Volume 1Translated by Henry ReeveProject Gutenberg ebook #815
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He jumped across the banisters to facilitate matters, lost his balance and tumbled down into the hall, where the company was waiting.
Carry Amelia NationThe Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationProject Gutenberg ebook #1485
But in order to facilitate some particular branches of it, particular institutions are necessary, which again require a particular and extraordinary expense.
Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3300
In cool climates there is an advantage to tightly constructed plastic walls that retain heat and facilitate decomposition of smaller thermal masses.
Steve SolomonOrganic Gardener's CompostingProject Gutenberg ebook #4342