Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • That serves to facilitate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective freeing from difficulty or impediment.

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  • adjective Having the effect of making easy; easing

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  • adjective freeing from difficulty or impediment

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Examples

  • The review said that since 2002, Canada has adopted an increasingly "facilitative" approach to foreign students - no longer requiring students to attend class, making it easier to extend the length of study permits and allowing students to work for up to two years after they complete their studies.

    The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2008

  • The review said that since 2002, Canada has adopted an increasingly "facilitative" approach to foreign students - no longer requiring students to attend class, making it easier to extend the length of study permits and allowing students to work for up to two years after they complete their studies.

    Sigmund, Carl and Alfred 2008

  • I think about the success my own coursebook series has had over the past couple of years (a 24-book series that focuses on “skills” – rather similar to the notional/functional approach you describe above, with “strategies” treated as facilitative actions that build on broader communicative skills), and it seems to be pretty good evidence that an applied (as opposed to unapplied) system still has resonance with learners and schools.

    S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • But the true purpose of all religions is to help facilitative a connection to this deeper reality, and the mystical experience is the original spark that informs religions.

    Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond Rabbi Alan Lurie 2010

  • Ensure that Meetup-like services are available at low (or no) cost (if demand for these key services proves to be elastic as to price) and subsidize facilitative technologies, such as group decision-making software.

    Discourse.net: Building the Bottom Up From the Top Down 2009

  • But the true purpose of all religions is to help facilitative a connection to this deeper reality, and the mystical experience is the original spark that informs religions.

    Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond Rabbi Alan Lurie 2010

  • But the true purpose of all religions is to help facilitative a connection to this deeper reality, and the mystical experience is the original spark that informs religions.

    Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond Rabbi Alan Lurie 2010

  • But the true purpose of all religions is to help facilitative a connection to this deeper reality, and the mystical experience is the original spark that informs religions.

    Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond Rabbi Alan Lurie 2010

  • But the true purpose of all religions is to help facilitative a connection to this deeper reality, and the mystical experience is the original spark that informs religions.

    Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond Rabbi Alan Lurie 2010

  • And if her role was primarily of a supportive, facilitative nature, how are we to measure her – or any such individual's – contributions to history?

    We Remember - Nell Ziff Pekarsky, 1910 - 1998 2010

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