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accessing

UK/ˈæksɛsɪŋ//ˈækˌsɛsɪŋ/

accessing is the present participle and gerund of access.

Meaning of access

Verb

access (third-person singular simple present accesses, present participle accessing, simple past and past participle accessed)

  1. (transitive) To gain or obtain access to.
    • The value of having in-house medical expertise is that staff with poor attendance records who have difficulty accessing NHS services can receive support from their employer, to help reduce absenteeism brought about by medical conditions.2023 December 13, 'Industry Insider', “Delivering a robust timetable”, in RAIL, number 998, page 68
  2. (transitive) To have access to (data).
    • I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.

See all 14 meanings of access

Questions about accessing

What is accessing the present participle and gerund of?
Accessing is the present participle and gerund of access.
How do you pronounce accessing?
Accessing is pronounced /ˈæksɛsɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near accessing in the dictionary

  1. accessibility
  2. accessible
  3. accessible tourism
  4. accessibleness
  5. accessibly
  6. accessing
  7. accession
  8. accession countries
  9. accession country
  10. accession number
  11. accession numbers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: accessing (page history and authors); access (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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