empowered
Adjective

empowered

  1. (US) Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.
    • 1995, Chicago Assembly, ‎Lawrence B. Joseph, Crime, Communities, and Public Policy (page 288)
      Policy moderation in the past, I argued above, has depended on a coalition between civic elites and newly empowered minorities—or at least a resolve by civic elites to discourage a racially polarizing politics of law and order.
  2. (US) Acting with confidence.
Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of empower
Noun

empowered (plural empowereds)

  1. One who is empowered.



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