Empowered

Quick meaning: Empowered is an adjective meaning Having been given powers.

Meaning

Having been given powers.

More Meanings

1. (US) Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.
2. (US) Acting with confidence.
3. simple past and past participle of empower
4. One who is empowered.

Example Sentences

The coolest of these "empowereds" laugh with the shock jocks ogling the hotties and ragging on the fatties and the prudes.

Empowered staff deliver the goods and exceed your expectations. Disempowered staff develop a 'sullen obedience' where they stop driving new initiatives and just await orders.

And if he had gotten his hands on Casey while the Heroics kids were fighting those controlled empowereds, he would've made sure that she felt every single bit of agony that he hadn't been able to inflict on her when she was.

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.

Word Forms

• empowereds

Synonyms for empowered

Depending on context, synonyms include authorized, sceptred, sceptered.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include authorized, sceptred, sceptered, competency, able, enabling.

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