unprotect
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unprotect (third-person singular simple present unprotects, present participle unprotecting, simple past and past participle unprotected)
- (computing, transitive) To remove protection from.
- Nobody can edit the accounting spreadsheet until you unprotect it.
- 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:
- 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.
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remove access restrictions
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