Dictionary

To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.

To affirm; to make firm and strong.

To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.

To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.

Example: April 16, 2018, Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan writing in The New York Times, ‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption

An act or an instance of something being enabled.