American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - v. To make easy or easier: political agreements that
facilitated troop withdrawals. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make easy; render less difficult; free wholly or partially
from difficulty or impediment; lessen the labor of: as, to
facilitate learning by suitable appliances. GNU Webster's 1913 -
v. To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or
impediment; to lessen the labor of. - v. make easier - v.
increase the likelihood of (a response) - v. be of use - French
faciliter, from Old French, from Italian facilitare, from
facile, facile, from Latin facilis; see facile. (American
Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
“What research has shown though is that the interruptions that
emails and phone calls facilitate affect our ability to remember
things.” “Almost all non-functional programmers are unaware that
tail calls facilitate a programming paradigm that they have
never seen.” “Calliflower Premi