Definition of "empowers" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empower. (verb)

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• "Financial pain empowers demagogues and opportunists."
• "When a hotel chain empowers a maid to spend up to $500 to make it right (using her own discretion), that's not a system, that's trusting great people to do the right thing."
• "And the until-recently-exclusive medium (for the technologically sophisticated at the start) cuts them down to earth and once again empowers the little guy."