disempower
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /dɪsɪmˈpaʊ(w)ə(ɹ)/
disempower (disempowers, present participle disempowering; past and past participle disempowered)
- To remove confidence from (someone) to do something.
- 1990, Editors: Tim Brighouse and Bob Moon, Managing the National Curriculum, Harlow: Longman Group UK Ltd, page 97:
- A powerful head can sometimes disempower the teaching staff, and create among them a sort of passivity that is close to inertia.
- 1990, Editors: Tim Brighouse and Bob Moon, Managing the National Curriculum, Harlow: Longman Group UK Ltd, page 97:
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