Having been given powers.
Empowered staff deliver the goods and exceed your expectations. Disempowered staff develop a 'sullen obedience' where they stop driving new initiatives and just await orders.
Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.
Policy moderation in the past, I argued above, has depended on a coalition between civic elites and newly empowered minorities—or at least a resolve by civic elites to discourage a racially polarizing politics of law and order.
Acting with confidence.
simple past and past participle of empower
One who is empowered.
From empower + -ed.
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