Empowered

Word EMPOWERED
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Hyphenation empowered
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Definitions and meanings of "Empowered"

What do we mean by empowered?

To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.

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.

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The word "empowered" in example sentences

Davis may be feeling empowered from the radical anti-immigrant law passed by the Arizona legislature, which requires police to attempt to determine the immigration status of anyone they encounter as part of a “lawful contact.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Don, who was feeling confident and empowered, is not taking any of it. ❋ Samantha Zalaznick (2010)

The IRS again empowered to enforce the limitation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With reform of the HoL to an elected 2nd chamber acting as a counter-balance to a smaller, fixed term empowered Commons. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then there's Phillips' distinctive way with a metaphor - comparing herself to a lever pulled down, as "a flipped switch," as a way of saying she feels turned on, empowered without using the dreadfully overused term "empowered." ❋ Unknown (2011)

And over at the Daily Beast, Meghan McCain says that guns make her feel "empowered" - both as a Republican and as a woman: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Today, children are "empowered" - blatantly encouraged to circumvent their parents and defy traditional values. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Being confident about what you are feeling, regardless of what it is, can shift you into feeling empowered, which is an emotion of higher energy and motion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rasiej believes we have drifted into a somewhat post-partisan era where people may be more likely to self-identify as empowered citizens rather than Democrats. ❋ Evan O'Neil (2009)

Just a few minutes into my first steering committee meeting at the South Philly office, I realize that it's at these satellite offices where the notion of empowered leadership is tested most. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thus, Congress has empowered Bush just as Germany's Reichstag empowered Hitler, Wolf writes, recalling Hitler's boast, "Democracy will be overthrown with the tools of democracy." ❋ Unknown (2008)

When he did, he said, he felt "empowered" because he thought the press had distorted his comments. ❋ The Huffington Post (2011)

Patients are told that they have been "empowered" to make decisions about their medical care based on their own analysis and values. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his famous 2009 Op-Ed piece, Anthony Bourdain wrote that we had become a "Foodie Nation," that chefs had become "empowered" and diners "obsessed." ❋ Unknown (2010)

You can't be "empowered" by something that doesn't exist. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Though only 30 pupils will be admitted to the IB course each year this is still, symbolically as well as practically, an important step forward towards a more diverse educational system in which pupils and their parents are "empowered" at the expense of bureaucrats and politicians. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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