Someone who makes something possible for another

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 audience—I 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.