enabler: meaning and definitions

To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able: a hole in the fence that enabled us to watch; techniques that enable surgeons to repair the heart. To make feasible or possible: funds that will enable construction of new schools.

To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to: a law enabling a new federal agency.

To make operational; activate: enabled the computer's modem; enable a nuclear warhead.

To behave in a manner that facilitates or supports (another's abusive, addictive, or self-destructive behavior).