enabler

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person or thing that makes something possible or helps it happen.

   Cheap internet access has been a key enabler of remote work.

2. 2
   noun

   A person whose behaviour allows someone else to continue a harmful habit, such as addiction.

   By always covering for his drinking, she became an enabler rather than a help.

From enable + -er.

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