Enable vs Assets - What's the difference?
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To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
* 1611 , King James Bible , "1 Tim. i. 12"
To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
* 1711 , October 13, (Joseph Addison), (The Spectator) , number 195
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To allow a way out or excuse for an action.
English plurals
(finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
(legal) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
As a verb enable
is to give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.As a noun assets is
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English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(enabling) (enabl)- Who hath enabled me.
- Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Antonyms
* disableDerived terms
* enabler * enablement * re-enable * reenableExternal links
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*assets
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Noun
(head)- His assets are much greater than his liabilities.