What (who) is Access - definition
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ACCESS; Access (disambiguation); Access (TV series); Access (series); Access (television series); Access (TV show); Acces; Accessed
access
n.
1) to gain, get access
2) to deny access
3) direct; easy, free, unlimited; limited access
4) (computers) random access
5) access to (we gained/got access to the files; access to a building)
access
(accesses, accessing, accessed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you have access to a building or other place, you are able or allowed to go into it.
The facilities have been adapted to give access to wheelchair users...
Scientists have only recently been able to gain access to the area...
The Mortimer Hotel offers easy access to central London.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N to n
2.
If you have access to something such as information or equipment, you have the opportunity or right to see it or use it.
...a Code of Practice that would give patients right of access to their medical records.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N to n
3.
If you have access to a person, you have the opportunity or right to see them or meet them.
He was not allowed access to a lawyer.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N to n
4.
If you access something, especially information held on a computer, you succeed in finding or obtaining it.
You've illegally accessed and misused confidential security files.
VERB: V n
access
n.
1.
Avenue, approach, passage, way, passage-way, way of approach, entrance, entranceway, adit, entry.
2.
Admission, admittance, means of approach, liberty to approach, audience, interview, entrance.
3.
Accession, addition, increase, aggrandizement, enlargement, gain, increment, more.
4.
Attack (of disease, etc.), onset, fit, paroxysm, recurrence.
Pronunciation examples for Access
1. access-- never access.
The Happiness Track _ Emma Seppälä _ Talks at Google
2. access.
Special Valentine Science!
3. access.
CNN's Black in America _ Soledad O'Brien _ Talks at Google
4. access.
Amaluna _ Cirque du Soleil _ Talks at Google
5. Access.
Recipes for Success _ Traci Des Jardins + More _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Access
1. "Maybe not complete access, but they should have access."
2. Brussels is only interested in trading access for access.
3. "Many nonprofits want to be in the District for all of the reasons that we do: access to talent, access to colleagues and other nonprofits, access to policymakers.
4. "We want to integrate so we can have greater market access, better access to capital and also greater access to advanced technology and gain access to new managerial skills."
5. "People just don‘t want to settle for no access or second–rate access," Moakley said.