easy access
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1.0
- noun
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acceso fácil
- The front passenger seat tilts forward to allow easy access to the rear.
- provide easy access
- allow easy access
- offer easy access
We'll move on now to talk about easy access and limited access accounts.
- We'll move on now to talk about easy access and limited access accounts.
- I mean, it's, it is that combined with easy access to firearms that creates centers where there are high rates of gun violence.
- We need to think hard about are every is everyone present really given free and easy access to the floor?
- I've given myself enough easy access to my Weiner and to my body.
- I suppose he had easy access to easy women.
- So you can't really compare that to what you're getting easy access.
Examples
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The trend is toward providing easy access to multiple data sources within a single search.
Academic text (2015) -
Mobile devices, smart TV's and easy access to high speed Internet have made this all seem common, trivial even.
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I guess what to make that easier would be just to make sure that they have easy access to food and water.
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Patients do not have easy access to their own information, such as test results.
Academic text (2012) -
Once it's published, it'll be the perfect way for people to have easy access to your book.
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Most of the Oregon coast is level, with easy access to the water's frolicking edge.
Academic text (2008) -
A square stairwell module provides safe and easy access to the underground station.
Academic text (2003) -
Streaming services and platforms with autoplay features offer easy access to long, uninterrupted sessions of content consumption.
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Insulated steel double doors swing out, allowing for easy access to large pieces of equipment.
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Mobile devices and easy access to high speed Internet have made this kind of information readily available.
Synonyms
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3.4
How easy it is for people to reach or use something
Antonyms
How Accessible
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the state of being able to approach or obtain something quickly and without difficulty' is directly derived from combining 'easy' (requiring little effort) with 'access' (the ability to approach or use something); it literally means access that is easy. This simple adjective+noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The noun easy access comes from a simple picture: something like an open door or a book within reach, where easy means simple and access means getting to something, so you can reach it without effort. That's why it means 'able to get to or use quickly and without difficulty'.