disempowermentn.
/ˌdɪsɪmˈpaʊəm(ə)nt/, /ˌdɪsɛmˈpaʊəm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəmˈpaʊərm(ə)nt/, /ˌdɪsɛmˈpaʊərm(ə)nt/ A state of powerlessness; the act of depriving a person or group of power.
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1971 Jrnl. Ecumenical Stud. 8 i. 62 The root of human difficulty lies in a collective, largely self-imposed, disempowerment.
1973 Public Admin. Rev. 33 530/1 The strategies alluded to as continuing education are aimed at..disempowerment of the individual because they merely seek to transform him into a more productive and harmonious employee.
1990 L. H. Tribe Abortion 93 The Court recognized the grotesque disempowerment that could occur if the choice of whether to beget a child were transferred from the individual to the state.
1991 Daughters of Sarah July 24/2 Do we perpetuate women's disempowerment in our approach to alcoholism as a ‘disease’ over which women alcoholics are ‘powerless’?
2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 25 June 16 Labour's disempowerment of civic Britain has left central government saddled with responsibilities.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- carpentry
- carper
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- carpet
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- carpet bomb
- carpet bombed
- carpet bombing
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- carpet captain
- carpet champion
- carpet cork tile
- carpet courtship
- carpet coward
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- carpet etc tile
- carpet friend
- carpet gentry
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- carpet layer
- carpet muncher
- carpet peer
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