facilitating
- 1Present participle and gerund of facilitate.
The new software is facilitating faster communication between the two offices.
She spent years facilitating negotiations between the rival unions.
Note
One -ing form doing two jobs: after be it is the progressive verb (is facilitating faster communication), and in noun positions it is the gerund (facilitating negotiations takes patience). It carries every meaning of facilitate: making something easier, helping bring it about, and running a meeting or seminar. Context decides whether someone facilitating a seminar is easing it along or chairing it. The object follows directly, with no preposition.
facilitating is a form of facilitate
facilitate, verb: To make a task or process easier or less difficult to carry out. Full entry
- Forms
- facilitatefacilitates he/she/itfacilitating -ing formfacilitated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- facilitate → facilitating: drop the e, add -ing
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