Inaccess

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of access. uncommon, uncountable

    "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[…]"

Example

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"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[…]"

Etymology

Superficially in- + access. Perhaps a back-formation from inaccessible.

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