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empowerment

/ɪmˈpaʊəmənt/

B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Law noun

The process of enabling people to assert and exercise their rights.

The programme focused on the legal empowerment of rural women.

Topic: Human rights in Legal English

Business noun

The granting of authority and confidence to employees to make decisions and act on their own initiative.

Real empowerment means letting front-line staff resolve complaints without escalating everything.

Topic: Human resources in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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