access
♦ ac|cess /'ækses/ (accesses accessing accessed)
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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.
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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.
3 [N-UNCOUNT] usu N to n
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.
4 [VERB] V n
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.ac|cess course (access courses)
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An access course is an educational course which prepares adults with few or no qualifications for study at a university or other place of higher education. (BRIT)ac|cess road (access roads)
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An access road is a road which enables traffic to reach a particular place or area.
...the access road to the airport.ac|cess time (access times)
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Access time is the time that is needed to get information that is stored in a computer. (COMPUTING)
This system helps speed up access times.re|mote ac|cess
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Remote access is a system which allows you to gain access to a particular computer or network using a separate computer. (COMPUTING)
The diploma course would offer remote access to course materials via the Internet's world wide web.
1 [N-UNCOUNT] usu N to n
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.
2 [N-UNCOUNT] usu N to n
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.
3 [N-UNCOUNT] usu N to n
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.
4 [VERB] V n
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.ac|cess course (access courses)
[N-COUNT]
An access course is an educational course which prepares adults with few or no qualifications for study at a university or other place of higher education. (BRIT)ac|cess road (access roads)
[N-COUNT]
An access road is a road which enables traffic to reach a particular place or area.
...the access road to the airport.ac|cess time (access times)
[N-COUNT]
Access time is the time that is needed to get information that is stored in a computer. (COMPUTING)
This system helps speed up access times.re|mote ac|cess
[N-UNCOUNT]
Remote access is a system which allows you to gain access to a particular computer or network using a separate computer. (COMPUTING)
The diploma course would offer remote access to course materials via the Internet's world wide web.