"empowerment" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: empowerments [plural]
Etymology: empower + -ment Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|empower|ment}} empower + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun}} empowerment (plural empowerments)
  1. The achievement of political, social or economic power by an individual or group.
    Sense id: en-empowerment-en-noun-FM0NZAS-
  2. The process of supporting another person or persons to discover and claim personal power. Translations (granting of power): apoderament [masculine] (Catalan), volitus (Estonian), volitamine (Estonian), valtuuttaminen (Finnish), valtuutus (Finnish), voimaantuminen (Finnish), valtaistuminen (Finnish), autonomisation (French), apoderamento [masculine] (Galician), Empowerment [neuter] (German), Ermächtigung [feminine] (German), Bevollmächtigung [feminine] (German), pemberdayaan (Indonesian), conferimento di potere (Italian), controllo (Italian), pendayaupayaan (Malay), ശാക്തീകരണം (śāktīkaraṇaṁ) (Malayalam), whakamanatanga (Maori), fullmakt (Norwegian), myndighet (Norwegian), empoderamento [masculine] (Portuguese), empoderamiento [masculine] (Spanish), bemyndigande (Swedish), fullmakt (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-empowerment-en-noun-hyZFfMnk Disambiguation of 'granting of power': 33 43 13 10
  3. The state of being empowered (either generally, or specifically). Translations (state of being empowered): تمكين (Arabic), plenpovo (Esperanto), võimestus (Estonian), võimestumine (Estonian), responsabilizzazione (Italian), emancipazione (Italian), whakamanatanga (Maori), empoderamento [masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-empowerment-en-noun-kyUru00f Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ment Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 6 63 28 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 5 5 63 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ment: 3 6 66 25 Disambiguation of 'state of being empowered': 1 3 91 6
  4. (South Africa) Government programs encouraging advancement of blacks. Tags: South-Africa
    Sense id: en-empowerment-en-noun-L-Scec-K Categories (other): South African English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: youth empowerment, black economic empowerment [South-Africa]

Noun [Italian]

Etymology: Borrowed from English empowerment. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|it|en|empowerment|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} English empowerment, {{bor+|it|en|empowerment}} Borrowed from English empowerment Head templates: {{it-noun|m|#}} empowerment m (invariable)
  1. empowerment Tags: invariable, masculine
    Sense id: en-empowerment-it-noun-ypGV2Zj2 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "state of being empowered",
      "word": "responsabilizzazione"
    },
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      "sense": "state of being empowered",
      "word": "emancipazione"
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      "sense": "state of being empowered",
      "word": "whakamanatanga"
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}

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