enabler

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who or that which helps something to happen.
    — The computer is an essential enabler of the conversation.
  2. One who encourages a bad habit in another (typically drug addiction) by their behavior.
    — In business, due to the stigma of alcoholism, enablers have their jobs and incomes at stake if their boss's secret is uncovered.
  3. One who gives someone else the power to behave in a certain way.
    — “ [Donald J.] Trump wants to mothball billions of dollars in investment and cancel one of the best new sources of American-made, renewable energy,” Mr. [William] Tong said. “Trump and his enablers will own the resulting cost increases for ratepayers.”

词形变化

enablers plural

词汇关系

相关词
co-dependence

词源

Etymology tree
English enable
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English enabler
From enable + -er.
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