unprotect en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + protect.; compare deprotect.
Meanings
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(transitive) To remove protection from.
Nobody can edit the accounting spreadsheet until you unprotect it.
Caution: When you successfully open a protected file, you’ve just unprotected it. After working with that document and closing it again, you must re-protect it if you still consider it confidential.
2000, David Pogue, “Icon Management”, in Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, Calif.: Pogue Press/O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., published 2002, →ISBN, page 50:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unprotected | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unprotected | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unprotects | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| unprotecting | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (3)
ca desprotegir (remove access restrictions) · es desproteger (remove access restrictions) · it sproteggere (remove access restrictions)