Soft-delete

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove access to (a resource), without deleting the resource itself.

    "That service was criticized for soft-deleting users' files without their knowledge, meaning they were still internally able to access everything."

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"That service was criticized for soft-deleting users' files without their knowledge, meaning they were still internally able to access everything."

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