Meanings
nouninaccess (uncountable)
- uncommonuncountableLack of access.
For example, on extraction of 100,000 barrels a day of crude oil in California, hampered by the inaccess to natural gas, where the key barrier was a 442 mile pipeline on Federal lands that our own forestry department was sitting on[…]
1991, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, National Energy Strategy: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, … Electric Utility Reform, page 314
Origin
Superficially in- + access. Perhaps a back-formation from inaccessible.
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inaccess,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inaccess.
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