| 单词 | empowered |
| 释义 | empowered (once / 2460 pages) adj Someone who's empowered has the ability or strength to do something legally or legitimately. An empowered student teacher might have been given the authority to grade the class's math tests. When a person who's in charge grants you permission to run things or make decisions, you can describe yourself as empowered. You're empowered if you are promoted to the captain of your soccer team, for example. As a legal term, empowered signifies true power: a judge is empowered, often deciding whether a defendant will spend his life in prison. Empowered combines the Latin roots in, "in or into," and potere, "powerful." WORD FAMILYempower: empowered, empowering, empowerment, empowers USAGE EXAMPLESAmericans are simultaneously so empowered and so threatened? The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) It’s also empowered him to teach his children using the latest technologies, adapting to changes quicker than traditional schools are able. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) Generals who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan to anything but victory — pyrrhic ones don’t count — are again being empowered. Salon(Dec 22, 2016) adj invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter Syn sceptered, sceptred authorised, authorized endowed with authority |
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