disempowermentn.
/ˌdɪsɪmˈpaʊəm(ə)nt/, /ˌdɪsɛmˈpaʊəm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəmˈpaʊərm(ə)nt/, /ˌdɪsɛmˈpaʊərm(ə)nt/ A state of powerlessness; the act of depriving a person or group of power.
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1971 Jrnl. Ecumenical Stud. 8 i. 62 The root of human difficulty lies in a collective, largely self-imposed, disempowerment.
1973 Public Admin. Rev. 33 530/1 The strategies alluded to as continuing education are aimed at..disempowerment of the individual because they merely seek to transform him into a more productive and harmonious employee.
1990 L. H. Tribe Abortion 93 The Court recognized the grotesque disempowerment that could occur if the choice of whether to beget a child were transferred from the individual to the state.
1991 Daughters of Sarah July 24/2 Do we perpetuate women's disempowerment in our approach to alcoholism as a ‘disease’ over which women alcoholics are ‘powerless’?
2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 25 June 16 Labour's disempowerment of civic Britain has left central government saddled with responsibilities.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1971- stand in the way of
- stand in the way of a person
- stand in the way of a thing
- stand in this
- stand in wax for
- stand in with
- stand in witness
- stand like piffy
- stand like piffy on a rock bun
- stand little chance
- stand mail
- stand measure
- stand moses
- stand much in stall
- stand much stall
- stand mum
- stand mumchance
- stand mute
- stand mute of malice
- stand need
- stand neuter
- stand neuters
- stand no chance
- stand no nonsense
- stand of