Facilitate

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Faciliate means, ironically “to make (an action or process) easy or easier,” — to help — but one uses it in business English purely to make something harder to understand. Next to “effect” it is the weakest verb in the English language, and a sure sign that nominalisation is afoot.

“To facilitate the giving of notice to —” really means, after all, “to tell”.

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