empowered

adj

1. 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.”

2. (US)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.”

3. (US)Acting with confidence.

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of empower

noun

1. One who is empowered.

   “The coolest of these "empowereds" laugh with the shock jocks ogling the hotties and ragging on the fatties and the prudes.”

   “And if he had gotten his hands on Casey while the Heroics kids were fighting those controlled empowereds, he would've made sure that she felt every single bit of agony that he hadn't been able to inflict on her when she was.”