facilitate
//fəˈsɪlɪteɪt//
formalForms
- present (v1)
- facilitate
- past (v2)
- facilitated
- past participle (v3)
- facilitated
- present participle
- facilitating
- 3rd person singular
- facilitates
Definitions
1.To make easy or easier.
- The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs.
2.To help bring about.
3.To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3621
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Anglicisation of French faciliter (“facilitate”) through -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin facilis.