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habilitation

[ huh-bil-i-tey-shuhn ]

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noun

the act or process of becoming fit or of making fit for a particular purpose:
For at-risk youth, combining school and work makes more sense, expanding their education and habilitation to include hands-on training.
a program of teaching basic living skills to someone with a disability, as in a group home:
Without early intervention and residential habilitation, our son would be so much more dependent than he is now.
Often Ha·bil·i·ta·tion. (in European and other educational systems) the act or process of qualifying as professor or instructor after having earned one’s doctorate, or the thesis or book written for this qualification:
After her doctorate and habilitation in New York and San José respectively, she joined the University of Konstanz as a professor of experimental solid-state physics in 2002.

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First recorded in 1620–30; from Latin habilitātiōn-, stem of habilitātiō “a making fit, an enabling”; habilitate ( def ), -ion ( def )

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But there it was, and it seems well on the way to full habilitation.

With such a Society those who undertook this project for the habilitation of criticism would necessarily co-operate and interlock.

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