0 something or someone that makes it possible for a particular thing to happen or be done:
Information technology is an enabler, but not the whole solution.
He accepts his responsibility as the enabler of many of his wife's problems.
Perhaps local authorities should consider becoming enablers rather than providers.
When local authorities are providers rather than enablers, they are always monopoly providers.
However, their primary responsibility as enablers is to make things happen.
We must recognise that, under the new community care arrangements, local authorities will increasingly become enablers rather than providers in the care business.
As our experience of recent operations shows, air transport and air refuelling are key enablers of the successful deployment and use of our forces.
The agenda includes transactions, access channels, enablers, e-business and organisational development.
Almost inevitably nowadays, they would do that in their role as enablers rather than as providers.
If they become enablers, they are given the crucial role of monitoring more carefully and closely the quality of services provided.
