0 to give someone official authority or the freedom to do something: --
1 to encourage and support the ability to do something: --
The state constitution does not empower counties to create housing authorities.
We want to empower individuals to get the skills they need.
2 to give someone official or legal authority, or the freedom or confidence to do something: --
A firmly entrenched evolutionary perspective guided the modernization plans of the newly empowered government services.
She must learn that resisting idolatry can be empowering, but the potential for empowerment depends upon the nature and origin of the resistance.
His is an account of social life governed by law, which, it becomes clear, on the whole he deeply appreciates because it empowers the individual.
Urban regeneration mechanisms talk of the intention to empower communities through participation in partnerships.
Talk of direct payments as empowering would look rather like empty rhetoric.
Whether the dance sessions had empowered the residents in a more permanent, transforming way is more difficult and too early to judge.
Others are concerned to raise the consciousness of and empower local women.
The study demonstrated the high cost of constructing consensus, because it empowered some groups at the expense of others.
