facilitatefa‧cil‧i‧tate /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/ ●○○ AWL verb [transitive] formal 
Verb Table Examples
Computers can be used to facilitate language learning.—facilitation /fəˌsɪlɪˈteɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]
Verb TableVERB TABLE
facilitate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | facilitate |
| he, she, it | facilitates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | facilitated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have facilitated |
| he, she, it | has facilitated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had facilitated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will facilitate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have facilitated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am facilitating |
| he, she, it | is facilitating | |
| you, we, they | are facilitating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was facilitating |
| you, we, they | were facilitating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been facilitating |
| he, she, it | has been facilitating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been facilitating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be facilitating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been facilitating |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Both centers are electronically linked to facilitate communication.
- Dividing students into small groups usually helps facilitate discussion.
- Legislation is urgently needed to facilitate police counterterrorist operations.
- Bodybuilders use mental imaging to facilitate their physical development.
- Internal representation and language development facilitate the development of truly social behavior and spark social learning.
- Manufacturers would be required to maintain dossiers in a standard format on each product, a measure designed to facilitate safety checks.
- Piaget identified social interaction as one of the major variables that facilitate cognitive development.
- The government was, he said, prepared to facilitate and fund the work of researchers into the matter.
- The managers research, collect, and maintain special education materials and facilitate their distribution within a region.
Longman Language Activatorto make something easier for someone to do► make something easier
Collocations · The new system will make buying and selling houses much easier.make it easier for somebody to do something · Health authorities want to make it easier for patients to be treated at home.make things/life easier · We've got a new secretary starting tomorrow -- that should make things easier.· It would make life a lot easier if there was a reliable train service.
► simplify to make something easier to understand, by removing the parts that cause difficulty or problems: · The whole university admissions procedure has been simplified.
► facilitate formal to make it easier for a process to happen or for someone to do something: · Both centers are electronically linked to facilitate communication.· Legislation is urgently needed to facilitate police counterterrorist operations.
► smooth the way to make it easier for someone to do something or for something to happen, by dealing with any problem that might prevent it: · Our representatives will be waiting for you to arrive, and ready to help smooth the way.smooth the way for: · It is hoped that the negotiations will smooth the way for an agreement later this year.
► ease to make it easier for a process to happen or move forward, especially by officially changing something that has previously been making it difficult: · The help of UN experts eased the transition to independence.· We need to get rid of Africa's long-term debt burden, and ease trade and commerce.
► spoonfeed to make it too easy for someone to do something by giving them too much information and help, so that they do not learn for themselves: · Don't spoonfeed him -- he's got to learn how to do things for himself!· Spoonfeeding students is never a good idea -- they always fail when it comes to exams.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► facilitate communication
Word family (=make it easier)· Computers have facilitated global communication.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► also· It would also facilitate the devolution of power to the regions.· E-commerce also facilitates sales force automation by enabling salespeople to carry product and reference information in one portable device.· But it will also facilitate the growth of m-commerce for new and old business alike.· In open country, trees becomes sites for breeding colonies which may also facilitate synchronization of breeding.· It would also facilitate reflex defecation and predispose to faecal incontinence.· The sticky nature of the outer shell may also facilitate passive spread of eggs.· It might also facilitate some participants progressing from Regional to National Schools in certain sports.
► greatly· The process of communication is greatly facilitated.· This would greatly facilitate the treatment of genetically complex tumours like colorectal cancer.· This would be greatly facilitated by moving the work of this office into the Inverleith Row premises.· Sensitive intervention of this kind is greatly facilitated in classrooms where group discussion approaches are used.· Perhaps most importantly, the computer interface greatly facilitates both obtaining and recording a complete medical history.· Such contracts are widely used in large scale commercial operations and may greatly facilitate commercial activity.· The first oil crisis created particular concern in this respect, but the development of the Euro-currency market greatly facilitated the process.· Modern technology greatly facilitates the recall and display of material held centrally.
► thus· Money thus facilitates trade and specialisation, two key conditions for the economic advancement of any society or nation.· It should help us to communicate and spread experience, feelings, understandings and ideas and thus facilitate action.· Problem factoring is the rationale for organization; organization permits factoring and thus facilitates the management of problems.
NOUN► access· Officially launched in January, it aims to facilitate access to the council's community services.· A more fundamental criticism is the requirement that databases should facilitate unplanned access as well as planned retrieval to the database.· Perhaps what is needed is more knowledge about what exists already and some sort of in-school organisation that facilitates access.
► activity· Functions and Dysfunctions Law facilitates commercial activity by providing structures within which it can take place.· A third area where law has facilitated commercial activity is dispute settlement.· At a second level, law functions to facilitate commercial activity through particular doctrines.· Such contracts are widely used in large scale commercial operations and may greatly facilitate commercial activity.
► change· Sure, more money is better than less if properly employed to facilitate change.· In this situation, new information technologies represent a vast potential for understanding and facilitating necessary change within an organisation.· In the National Health Service the control over funding also facilitates policy change from the centre.
► communication· Given the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, participants are encouraged to design their presentations to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication.· The counsellor may be able to facilitate communication between the couple that has not been possible at home.· A simple problem-orientated method of assessment can facilitate both management and communication between start members.· The intention is to facilitate better communication and a greater sense of ownership and sharing.· The problem list facilitates communication among staff members and helps clearly identify exactly who has agreed to do what and when.· Contracting may be effective because it makes evasion difficult, facilitates communication, and offers rewards to the patient.· Diagnosis may facilitate communication among professionals in obtaining an appropriate placement for a child.· Synapses, minute gaps between neurones where one neurone receives signals from another, also facilitate nerve cell communication.
► development· Microcredit institutions or non-conventional NGOs could help facilitate local development when government or private-sector actors were lacking.· The mishaps that befall Van Orton seem more random and jarring, though, than cohesively engineered to facilitate his spiritual development.· The already over-stretched funds can not deal with serious infrastructure solutions to facilitate the development of flood plains.· This helps develop expertise, resources, and competition in the private sector and so facilitates the development of commercial services.· The aim was to facilitate the development of schools which would be attended by pupils of different faiths.· Bodybuilders use mental imaging to facilitate their physical development.· There is a different form of automatic teaching device called a pacing machine which can facilitate the development of motor skills.· Piaget identified social interaction as one of the major variables that facilitate cognitive development.
► exchange· The importance to historians of encoding standards that will facilitate data exchange can not be overstated.· Guests take advantage of local transportation in order to facilitate cultural exchanges.· To facilitate the exchange of goods and services both externally, among nations and internally, within a nation.· The Internet international computer network system could facilitate efficient exchange of information.· How can we support the development of encoding standards which will facilitate data exchange?· However, few existing applications facilitate the exchange of messages or data directly with mobile workers.· It enables a price system to operate and facilitates the production and exchange of goods.· Good mediators facilitate the necessary exchange of information and help both parties pinpoint key questions to take to their legal advisers.
► flow· This arrangement would facilitate indication of flow and could be used to identify the areas in which sprinkler heads were in operation.
► growth· But it will also facilitate the growth of m-commerce for new and old business alike.· As the volume of Treasury bills declined in the 1970s the discount houses facilitated the rapid growth in the commercial bill market.· Charles Robins believes UnixWare will facilitate the growth of Unix in commercial accounts because of its ease of use and integration with NetWare.
► information· The best intervention is that which is facilitated by information which places the remedy in the customer's own hands.· The Internet international computer network system could facilitate efficient exchange of information.
► learning· A student assistant could help with this. 2 To facilitate learning of student names, alphabetical seating arrangements might be desirable.· Job rotation also facilitates this learning.· Its layout reflects the mechanical limitations of early typewriters and as such hardly constitutes an intuitive ordering that would facilitate rapid learning.· She had the skill, courage and creativity to facilitate the learning process of these pupils.
► management· The advantage of a Loans Fund is that it facilitates the authority's management of debt.· Obtaining information about tests performed and treatments tried may facilitate further work-up and management.· A simple problem-orientated method of assessment can facilitate both management and communication between start members.· A new warehouse has been constructed to facilitate the management of valve stocks.· At best, management fashions can facilitate effective profit management.· Problem factoring is the rationale for organization; organization permits factoring and thus facilitates the management of problems.
► movement· The countryside has been buried under layers of concrete to facilitate its movement in ever greater numbers.· The second factor was the need for selecting a date when there would be adequate moon-light to facilitate night movements.· The rear leg acts like a springboard, tensing the back foot outwards and facilitating a fast forward movement.· Witness what happened recently to the businesses along Hayes Street when a tow-away zone was instituted to facilitate the movement of cars.· They also facilitated the movement of perishable dead meat quite long distances.· Hands-on experiences require classroom arrangements that facilitate movement, group work, and varied activities.
► order· Guests take advantage of local transportation in order to facilitate cultural exchanges.· In order to facilitate visual connections we have limited the range of topics or genres in each chapter.· I felt a thump against my abdomen and it became necessary to double over in order to facilitate breathing.
► process· Cheque guarantee cards facilitate the process.· Comprehensive health insurance and universal access to health care has the potential to facilitate this process and improve surveillance.· A developing grasp of speech will facilitate the process.· We are facilitating the grieving process.· The rapidly expanding capabilities of information technology would facilitate the process.· He was known for facilitating the process whereby tumor markers, or lab tests for tumors, were brought into the marketplace.· Professional roles in offering support both directly and indirectly through other helpers will remain important in facilitating this process of accessing opportunities.· A catalyst facilitates a chemical process without being used up or changed itself.
► removal· Flaps were to be left in the down position to facilitate the removal of mud and other debris prior to their retraction.· This will facilitate the removal of surplus glue or spills.· This is sometimes used in mechanised cleaning where a cold water rinse can facilitate the removal of detergent from a system.
► structure· Rapid changes in the occupational structure, facilitated by educational expansion, have increased the overall chances of entering higher-ranking occupations.· In contrast, a decentralized structure facilitates leadership and unleashes creativity.· Within the constraints and limitations of the ward, the teacher can arrange and structure teaching to facilitate learning.
► system· It involves the development of a system to facilitate the description and analysis of the interview process.· The Internet international computer network system could facilitate efficient exchange of information.· It enables a price system to operate and facilitates the production and exchange of goods.· But with it came the recognition that the ability of the system to facilitate this process is limited.· That all new slides be transferred to modern storage systems to facilitate easy retrieval. 4.
► transfer· Near facilitates the rapid transfer of information about attacks on academics and academic freedom on a global basis.· Many course combinations are possible during the first three years, facilitating transfer between these three streams.· Organized stock exchanges facilitate the transfer of securities among buyers and sellers.· Bankers do not make it easier for them to do so by, for example, facilitating the transfer of standing payment orders.
► use· Such techniques no longer even need radioactively labelled probes, which will facilitate their routine use in laboratories.· The higher flame temperature might facilitate the use of normal Pulverized coal sizes.· This created a more active market in foreign exchange and facilitated the use of the US$ for financing balance of payments purposes.· Some of the saucers at this time had ring handles, either flat or shell-shaped, to facilitate their use.
► work· The government was, he said, prepared to facilitate and fund the work of researchers into the matter.· All of these rooms are physically arranged to facilitate group work.· It appears to be designed to facilitate such collective work.· Hands-on experiences require classroom arrangements that facilitate movement, group work, and varied activities.· This would be greatly facilitated by moving the work of this office into the Inverleith Row premises.· He facilitates his people's work rather than authorizes it.
VERB► design· Given the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, participants are encouraged to design their presentations to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication.· First, some of the economic functions of government are designed to strengthen and facilitate the operation of the market system.· Various software packages have been designed in order to facilitate the storage and analysis of materials such as interview transcripts and fieldnotes.· It appears to be designed to facilitate such collective work.
► help· Microcredit institutions or non-conventional NGOs could help facilitate local development when government or private-sector actors were lacking.· The Pueblo Gardens Credit Union is a unique neighborhood-based effort to help facilitate small loans to those with little capital.· Actuaries are helping to facilitate these discussions.
WORD FAMILYnounfacilitatorfaciliatationverbfacilitate
to make it easier for a process or activity to happen: Computers can be used to facilitate language learning.—facilitation /fəˌsɪlɪˈteɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]