MEANING
to make an activity or process easier or more likely to proceed effectively
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Words that belong together
- facilitate access
- facilitate discussion
- facilitate cooperation
On the page
Clear instructions facilitate comparison between the studies.
The grant facilitated access to the archive.
Small discussion groups can facilitate participation.
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Opposite meanings
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Word forms
- Base
- facilitate / facilitates
- Past tense
- facilitated
- Past participle
- facilitated
- Present participle
- facilitating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- facilitate / facilitates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are facilitating
- Present perfect
- have/has facilitated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been facilitating
- Past
- facilitated
- Past continuous
- was/were facilitating
- Past perfect
- had facilitated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been facilitating
- Future
- will facilitate / facilitates
- Future continuous
- will be facilitating
- Future perfect
- will have facilitated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been facilitating
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Usage notes
Primary curation section: Academic. Facilitation assists a process; it does not guarantee success or necessarily cause the entire outcome. facilitate; facilitates; facilitated; facilitated; facilitating. Related noun: facilitation.
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