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facilitate
/fəˈsɪləˌteɪt/
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What does facilitate mean?
verb
- To make easy or easier.
- To help bring about.
- To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).
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IPA pronunciation
/fəˈsɪləˌteɪt/
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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.
A distinction must be made, when the aristocratic and the democratic principles mutually inveigh against each other, as tending to facilitate corruption.
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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.
But in order to facilitate some particular branches of it, particular institutions are necessary, which again require a particular and extraordinary expense.
In cool climates there is an advantage to tightly constructed plastic walls that retain heat and facilitate decomposition of smaller thermal masses.