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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unprotect en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + protect.; compare deprotect.

Meanings

  1. (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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
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

unprotector

Translations (3)

ca desprotegir (remove access restrictions) · es desproteger (remove access restrictions) · it sproteggere (remove access restrictions)