FACILITATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does facilitator mean? 

• FACILITATOR (noun)
  The noun FACILITATOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who makes progress easier

  Familiarity information: FACILITATOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FACILITATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes progress easier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("facilitator" is a kind of...):

assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)

Derivation:

facilitate (make easier)

 Context examples 

The antigen has been implicated as a facilitator of hepatic metastasis and is a cancer specific antigen of colon carcinoma.

(Carcinoembryonic Antigen-Related Cell Adhesion Molecule 5, NCI Thesaurus)