Definition of "facilitate" []

• To make easy or easier: political agreements that facilitated troop withdrawals. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "What research has shown though is that the interruptions that emails and phone calls facilitate affect our ability to remember things."
• "Almost all non-functional programmers are unaware that tail calls facilitate a programming paradigm that they have never seen."
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