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enabler

/ɪˈneɪblə/

B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Law noun

A person who facilitates another's abusive tax arrangement and may be penalised for doing so.

The accountancy firm faced substantial penalties as an enabler of the defeated avoidance scheme.

Similar: facilitator

Topic: Tax law in Legal English

Business noun

A factor or capability that makes some larger change possible.

A clean data platform was the real enabler behind every downstream automation.

Similar: catalyst, facilitator

Topic: Management & organisation 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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