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Definition: EMPOWERING |
EMPOWERINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Empower |
Date "EMPOWERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Crosswords: EMPOWERING |
| English words defined with "EMPOWERING": Commission of bankruptcy ♦ letters testamentary ♦ Seguestration ♦ Warrant of attorney. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "EMPOWERING": Instructions to the Committee. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "EMPOWERING": Empower. (references) |
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Theater & Movies | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Empowering users through inexpensive, flat rate, high-bandwidth access to the Internet is one of the most important means of fostering the emergence of a New Economy. (references) | |
Economic History | Colombia | Colombia's 1993 copyright law significantly increased penalties for copyright infringement, specifically empowering the Prosecutor General's office to combat piracy. (references) |
West Bank | In 1997 the PA issued regulations governing wire and radio communications in WB/G, empowering the Ministry of Post and Communications to establish, manage, and operate wire and radio communications networks in WB/G. Under this law, all public wire and radio communication networks are subject to licensure. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Thailand | The new regulations ease the requirements to establish citizenship by allowing a wider range of evidence, including testimony from references, and empowering local officials to decide cases. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | The project aims at improving the living conditions of poorer and vulnerable groups of the population; empowering communities and vulnerable groups to address social needs: assisting reforms in social protection, health and education by creating models that target and provide services. (references) |
Worker Rights | Sweden | Amendments to the labor law in 1997 made it easier for employers to hire workers for limited periods, as well as empowering local unions to agree to exceptions to last-in, first-out laws. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Representative John Kasich | Look, I think we ought to have a debate about this, and I think we ought to make it clear to the people that they're interested in empowering bureaucrats, and we're interested in empowering people. |
Rush Limbaugh | The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | It's time to stop ignoring them and start empowering them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "EMPOWERING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "EMPOWERING" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 71.43% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.14% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "EMPOWERING": self-empowering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
empowering employee | 12 |
empowering woman | 9 |
empowering vision | 7 |
empowering | 7 |
empowering quote | 5 |
empowering writer | 4 |
empowering teacher | 3 |
empowering people | 2 |
empowering youth | 2 |
awareness.com empowering | 2 |
empowering song | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EMPOWERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 授权 (authorisation, Authorization, Empower, Empowered). (various references) | ||||
French | loi d'habilitation (empowering statute). (various references) | ||||
German | befähigend (featuring, qualifying). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 능 을 줌. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | empoweringay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"EMPOWERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: depowering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "EMPOWERING" (pronounced i'mpou"ering) |
| 5 | -p ou" er i ng | powering. |
| 4 | -ou" er i ng | cowering, devouring, flowering, glowering, scouring, showering, souring, towering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-m-n-o-p-r-w" | |
-2 letters: powering. | |
-3 letters: empower, epigone, gripmen, impower, impregn, meowing, peering, pereion, perigon, perming, pinworm, pioneer, pirogen, preeing, promine, regimen, romping, weeping, wiremen, worming. | |
-4 letters: emigre, empire, epigon, epimer, erenow, eringo, ermine, genome, germen, ignore, impone, merino, mewing, monger, mopier, moping, moreen, morgen, mowing, opener, orpine, peeing, pereon, pigeon, pinger, pongee, poring, premen, premie, regime, region, reopen, repine, roping, rowing, weiner, wiener, wigeon, winger. | |
-5 letters: enorm, genie, genip, genom, genre, genro, gipon, giron, gnome, goner, green, grime, gripe, groin, grope, grown, irone, merge, miner, minor, moire, monie, moper, mower, newer, newie, ngwee, opine, oping, orpin, owing, owner, pengo, pingo, pirog, power, preen, prime, primo, prion, proem, prone, prong, reign, renew, renig, repeg, repin, rewin, rewon, ripen, rowen, wiper, women, wring, wrong. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 4D 50 4F 57 45 52 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- .--. --- .--. . .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001101 01010000 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E M P O W E R I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004D 0050 004F 0057 0045 0052 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39475049573952434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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