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{{pe}}Ironically, “[[faciliate]]” means “to make something easier,” — to ''help'', in other words — but one uses it in business English purely to make something — namely your sentence — harder. Next to “[[effect]]” it is the weakest [[verb]] in the English language, and a sure sign that [[nominalisation]] is afoot.  
{{pe}}Ironically, to “[[facilitate]]” means “to make something easier,” — to ''help'', in other words — but one uses it in business English purely to make something — namely your sentence — harder. 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”.
“To [[facilitate]] the giving of notice to —” really means, after all, “to tell”.