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One who supplies the means
Answer for the clue "One who supplies the means ", 7 letters:
enabler
Alternative clues for the word enabler
- One makes things possible
- One who shouldn't be helping
- Harmful helper
- Someone who makes something possible for another
- One who doesn't give tough love, say
- Co-dependency figure
- One helping an addict
- Someone who makes it possible for another to do something
- One who facilitates self-destructive behavior
Word definitions for enabler in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, agent noun from enable .
Usage examples of enabler.
She activated the sleep cycle enabler for the second time, and woke eight hours later, this time clearheaded enough to realize that the first sleep hadn’t been enough.
Billy took the enabler back out of its socket and slipped it into his vest.
Angel's advocate, enabler, or audience—I can go any way you like, Eva.
Angel's advocate, enabler, or audienceI can go any way you like, Eva.
In short, he’d been a mere instrument of convenience, an enabler, a facilitator, so to speak, an all-around nice guy who’d tried to be helpful, was all.
They had become the enablers, providing cover and an appearance of reasonableness so Cheney and Rumsfeld worked their will.
I can’t believe your enablers actually implied your drunk driving conviction wasn’t as offensive as Clinton’s transgressions.
All the stock phrases Skiba had heard from every other crooked company and their legions of enablers got trotted out.