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access

  1. right to use banking services. Specifically, it means the right to make deposits to or withdrawals from a bank account, verify an account balance, use a safe deposit box, or make electronic transfers using a bank card or other access device .
  2. bank card organization in Great Britain formed in 1972, a member of mastercard international and Eurocard.

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a powerful, highly programmable relational database marketed by Microsoft as part of the Office suite of products.

access

  1. in television programming, time segment in Eastern and Pacific time zones from 7:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M., just prior to prime time , Monday through Saturday. On Sundays, prime time is extended one hour to include access time. (Access time in the Central and Mountain time zones is one hour earlier.) See also daypart .
  2. in computer programming, time taken by the system to retrieve information from the storage unit.

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