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facilitate Definition

fa·cili·tate (fə silə tāt′)

transitive verb -·tat′ed, -·tat′·ing

to make easy or easier

Etymology: < Fr faciliter < It facilitare < L facilis (see facile) + -ate

facilitate Related Forms
fa·cili·ta′·tor noun
facilitate Synonyms

facilitate

v.

promote, aid, make easy, expedite; see help 1, promote 1.

facilitate Usage Examples

Object

  • sharing: Microsoft SharePoint&trade; Services helps small to medium sized businesses facilitate the sharing of information within their organizations, over the Internet.
  • exchange: The Center has academic agreements with several Latin American universities which facilitate exchanges of faculty.
  • communication: The Tuesday Updates were a common point of reference for all game players, facilitating communication.
  • collaboration: These grants demonstrate the councils ' vital role in bringing about change through facilitating productive collaboration with industry.
  • discussion: Speakers will usually address the seminar for no more than 15 minutes each to facilitate group discussion.
  • dialog: Useful links are provided and there is a newsletter called " Ethically Speaking " which facilitates dialog between different European ethics committees.

Subject

  • tutor: It involves self-management courses facilitated by trained tutors who themselves have a long-term health problem.
  • expert: We have ' permanent ' boards which are not facilitated by any expert.

Adjective complement

  • rapid: This will help to facilitate rapid take up of the cards.

Modifying Another Word

  • greatly: The proceedings will be made with LaTeX, which will greatly facilitate future publication.
  • thereby: HSE must change this so as to enable prompt investigation, root cause analysis and thereby facilitating avoidance of similar accidents.
  • externally: A working group has been established, externally facilitated, which will aim to deliver the final Scheme by December 2006.
  • jointly: Snail Mail Workshop The school workshop was jointly facilitated by my good friend and writer, Fiona Hamilton.
  • actively: We will actively facilitate business opportunities and develop them whenever they benefit the people of Northern Ireland.
  • effectively: In this way, the sharing of good practice and networking of ideas could be facilitated more effectively.

Used with why or when

  • where: McKeone ( 1994, p 6 ) suggests that legal aid should be granted to facilitate this where necessary.

Present participle complement

  • learn: Groups are often formed because of factors like the classroom layout and in the interests of classroom management, rather than to facilitate learning.
  • search: Such memos facilitate later searching and cataloging of images.

Preposition: by

  • tutor: It involves self-management courses facilitated by trained tutors who themselves have a long-term health problem.
  • expert: We have ' permanent ' boards which are not facilitated by any expert.