de-access

1. 1.

   dispose of by selling

   “the museum sold off its collection of French impressionists to raise money”

   “the publishing house sold off one of its popular magazines”

   Broaderdiscard

Questions about de-access

What does de-access mean?

de-access means "dispose of by selling".

How many syllables are in de-access?

de-access has 3 syllables and divides as de--ac-cess under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is de-access a common word?

de-access is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.