[f. FACILITATE v. + -OR.] One who or that which facilitates.
1824. Ann. Reg., 266*. An apparatus for shaving which he denominates the useful and elegant facilitator.
1834. New Monthly Mag., XLII. Oct., 260/1. In this iron age, when steam and gas, conducted through iron channels, are the grand facilitators and illuminators of the intercourse of the most distant provinces, the iron trade, by a strange anomaly, is in a more depressed state than any other great source of national wealth and extensive demand for labour.
1871. Pall Mall G., 29 March, 11. The Washington correspondent … says the Senate is becoming the great facilitator of jobs and schemes.
