access to (someone or something)

access to (someone or something)

The means, ability, or permission to use or reach someone or something. I won't have access to my work email while I'm away on vacation. No, I don't have direct access to the CEO, but I'll call his assistant. None of the guests are to have access to the garden before the reception starts, understood?

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*access to someone or something

permission to approach someone or something; the right to use someone or something. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) Can you get access to a computer?

See also: access, to

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