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The difference between a door and a wall is who's holding the key.
means The right or ability to enter, reach, use, or obtain something.
from From Latin accessus, 'a coming near, an approach,' the noun form of accedere — ad- ('toward') plus cedere ('to go, to move'). The same cedere gives us cede, proceed, and recede, all verbs of going. Access entered English through French in the medieval period, originally describing the act of approaching, and only gradually hardened into the modern sense of being let in.
- legal sense
- first recorded in english around the 14th century
- tech twist
- access as in log-in dates only to the 1960s
- same root
- shares DNA with concede, recede, and exceed
- economics term
- access is now valued above ownership in sharing economy