Access ˈækses Easy Gained Disabled Visitors Good Wheelchair

• the police gained access through a broken window.
• there is easy access by road.
• the only access to the farmhouse is across the fields.
• disabled visitors are welcome; there is good wheelchair access to most facilities.

access

1. a way of entering or reaching a place
• compare egress
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/egress
• The police gained access through a broken window.
• There is easy access by road.
• The only access to the farmhouse is across the fields.
• Disabled visitors are welcome; there is good wheelchair access to most facilities.
2. the opportunity or right to use something or to see somebody/something
• compare visitation
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/visitation
• Students must have access to good resources.
• You need a password to get access to the computer system.
• access to confidential information
• Journalists were denied access to the President.
• Many divorced fathers only have access to their children at weekends (= they are allowed by law to see them only at weekends).

Extra Examples

• He was finally granted access to the medical records.
• I lived deep in the country, without easy access to shops.
• Men and women should have equal access to education and employment.
• Some people are being denied access to adequate medical care.
• Students have easy access to libraries.
• The computer provides access to all the information.
• high-speed Internet access
• improved access for disabled visitors
• random access memory
• universal access to education
• A journalist gained access to the star’s hospital room.
• A judge ruled that the public have right of access to the area.
• Access points to the site had been blocked.
• Double doors give access to the terrace.
• The changes will improve access for the disabled.
• The only access was down a flight of steep steps.
• The public will once again have access to the castle.
• There is a need to increase educational opportunities and access to colleges.
• There is wheelchair access to most of the facilities.
• You may need to gain access to the space under the floor.

Word Origin

• early 17th cent.: from Latin accessus, from the verb accedere ‘to approach’, from ad- ‘to’ + cedere ‘give way, yield’