Empower vs X - What's the difference?
empower | x |
To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
* {{quote-book, year=1985, author=William H. Tench, title=Safety is no accident
, passage=Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things.}}
To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
* {{quote-book, year=1992, author=Nick Logan, title=The Face, page=11-130
, passage=Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.}}
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a verb empower
is to give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.empower
English
Alternative forms
* empowre (archaic) * impower (archaic) * impowre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- It's not enough to give women and minorities equal rights on paper; they need to be empowered to be able to make use of these rights.
- John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.