empower to do

empower someone to do something

to authorize someone to do something; to grant someone the power to do something. I will empower you to collect the dues of the members. The prime minister empowered a special office to oversee tax collection.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Felicjan	fe-LEETS-yahn	Polish
Smiljana	-	Croatian, Serbian
Alana	ə-LAN-ə	English
Medad	-	Biblical
Hode	-	Yiddish
Igor	EE-gər (Russian), EE-gawr (Polish)	Russian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian