facilitate

Etymology

English facility + -ate, from French faciliter, from Latin facilis.

verb

1. To make easy or easier.
   Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock. 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94
   The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs. November 30 2022, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75
2. To help bring about.
   But while she was pursuing this thought the good genius of Sophia, or that which presided over the integrity of Mrs Honour, or perhaps mere chance, sent an accident in her way, which at once preserved her fidelity, and even facilitated the intended business. 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).