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enable

 verb
     
en‧a‧ble S3 W1 [transitive]
to make it possible for someone to do something, or for something to happen
enable somebody/something to do something
The loan enabled Jan to buy the house.
There are plans to enlarge the runway to enable jumbo jets to land.
—enabler noun [countable]
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