unprotect

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verb

To remove protection from.

“Nobody can edit the accounting spreadsheet until you unprotect it.”

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Meanings

verbunprotect (third-person singular simple present unprotects, present participle unprotecting, simple past and past participle unprotected)

present singular third person unprotects · participle present unprotecting · participle past unprotected · past unprotected

  1. transitivecomputingTo remove protection from.

    Nobody can edit the accounting spreadsheet until you unprotect it.

    1 more example

    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

Origin

From un- + protect.; compare deprotect.

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Translations

Catalan desprotegir
  • desprotegirremove access restrictions
Italian sproteggere
  • sproteggereremove access restrictions
Spanish desproteger
  • desprotegerremove access restrictions
Cite this entry
APA

unprotect. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unprotect

MLA

“unprotect.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unprotect. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unprotect,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unprotect.

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