I will empower you to collect the dues of the members.
•The prime minister empowered a special office to oversee tax collection.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
empower — em‧pow‧er [ɪmˈpaʊə ǁ ər] verb [transitive] formal LAW to give a person or an organization the power or the legal right to do something: empower somebody to do something • The President is empowered to appoint judges to the Supreme Court. * * *… … Financial and business terms
empower — [[t]ɪmpa͟ʊə(r)[/t]] empowers, empowering, empowered 1) VERB If someone is empowered to do something, they have the authority or power to do it. [FORMAL] [be V ed to inf] The army is now empowered to operate on a shoot to kill basis... [V n to… … English dictionary
empower — empower, empowerment Empower is a 17c verb meaning ‘to give power or authority to’. In the 1970s it acquired a new meaning, ‘to make (someone) able to do something’, implying the freedom to adopt moral values and principles of one s choice as… … Modern English usage
empower — UK [ɪmˈpaʊə(r)] / US [emˈpaʊr] verb [transitive] Word forms empower : present tense I/you/we/they empower he/she/it empowers present participle empowering past tense empowered past participle empowered 1) to give someone more control over their… … English dictionary
empower — em|pow|er [ em paur ] verb transitive 1. ) FORMAL to give a person or organization the legal authority to do something: a court empowered to review the decisions of a lower court 2. ) to give someone more control over their life or more power to… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
empower — em|pow|er [ımˈpauə US ˈpaur] v [T] 1.) to give someone more control over their own life or situation ▪ The Voting Rights Act was needed to empower minority groups. 2.) formal to give a person or organization the legal right to do something be… … Dictionary of contemporary English
empower — verb (T) 1 to give someone more control over their own life or situation: The aim of the course is to empower women. 2 formal to give an organization the power or legal right to do something: be empowered to do sth: The college is empowered to… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
empower — [ɪmˈpaʊə] verb [T] 1) to make someone feel that they have control over their life and their work Our goal is to empower everyone on our staff.[/ex] 2) formal to give a person or organization the legal authority to do something empowerment noun… … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
empower — /ɪm paυə/ verb to give someone the power to do something ● She was empowered by the company to sign the contract. ● Her new position empowers her to hire and fire at will … Dictionary of banking and finance
permit — per·mit / pər ˌmit, pər mit/ n: a written warrant or license granted by one having authority a building permit Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. permit … Law dictionary
let — verb 1) let him sleep for now Syn: allow to, permit to, give permission to, give leave to, authorize to, sanction to, grant the right to, license to, empower to, enable to, entitle to; archaic suffer to Ant: prevent, prohibit … Thesaurus of popular words
