1(of a place) able to be reached or entered.

1. 1.1 (of an object, service, or facility) able to be easily obtained or used.
   making learning opportunities more accessible to adults

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Thus, foraging habitat was readily accessible to cowbirds on all study sites.
   • Nor were schools easily accessible to the larger majority of Sicilians; only the wealthy were able to take advantage of the limited opportunities.
   • Not only is online information easily accessible to employees, it frees human resources staff to deal with non-routine issues.
   • The NCC should be easily accessible to children and should have in-built mechanisms like toll-free phone lines and the presence of children's friends.
   • But materials available in private collections and religious establishments are not easily accessible to scholars.
   • A spokesperson for Ms Harney said she is committed to making the full range of cancer services available and accessible to cancer patients throughout Ireland.
   • He said the Council wanted to maximise the use of the park and ride buses and now hoped the public would fully support the service which would be convenient and easily accessible to visitors and commuters alike.
   • Everything is easily accessible to the customer, who is left free to browse until assistance is needed.
   • It's really about ensuring that the company resources are maintained and easily accessible to the right people.
   • He said the government would ‘urgently consider’ a recommendation that a register be set up which was easily accessible to those needing to check a person's past.
   • Except, of course, health care isn't easily accessible to all.
   • Ever since signing with Nike, the 125-year-old club's merchandise bas been easily accessible to American soccer fans.
   • Store the information on your computer, but also make a hard copy that is easily accessible to your family.
   • But keep them easily accessible to people in the house, in case of fire.
   • The BIND database and its associated software tools are easily accessible to both academics and commercial companies worldwide.
   • It said primary care trusts must pay much more attention to men's health, particularly by making local services more easily accessible to them.
   • This keeps great volumes of data easily accessible to users at all times without overloading primary storage or requiring expensive disk purchases for less active data.
   • This will make data regarding what material is available accessible to a wider group of researchers.
   • The Xbox Live Marketplace is accessible to everyone who connects their Xbox 360 console to a broadband connection and creates an Xbox Live account.
   • He tried several detoxification centres, including one in Cuba, but said most of the Caribbean's medical services were not easily accessible to addicts and people with mental health problems.

   Synonyms

   available, to be had, in circulation, on the market, on offer, in season, at one's disposal, at hand, gettable, procurable, securable, acquirable, realizable, achievable, attainable, ready
2. 1.2 Easily understood.
   his Latin grammar is lucid and accessible

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   • It is one of the world's most well loved ballets and is easily accessible to those whose knowledge of classical ballet is only limited.
   • And only Shiller found a way to make economics and business accessible, compelling, understandable - human.
   • For the purpose of this review, it is important to stress the book's lively, engaging, jargon - free tone, making it accessible to any intelligent reader.
   • Pop-rock is rock music that's accessible enough to be appreciated by anybody.
   • And the supporting studies are more accessible to the intelligent layperson than some reports suggest.
   • The author's prose is clear and his image of Zimbabwe is accessible and understandable, if perhaps oversimplified.
   • It is accessible to any listener who can understand Barber's Adagio for Strings or Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht.
   • However, his accounts were personal and, at times, not entirely accessible to the audience.
   • Sometimes, paradoxically, you can even use ambiguity to make the story more understandable or accessible.
   • Appreciation of context transforms knowledge to understanding, and only education can make that context accessible to us.
   • The result is a complex, overlapping set of rules which is most undesirable in the sphere of consumer protection where remedies should be accessible and understandable.
   • It's not just the picture on the front cover but the 130 inside that make this book easily accessible to those who are not familiar with the area.
   • He interjects a tiny bit of singing into his standard toasting, which certainly makes things more accessible if you can't understand what he is saying.
   • This book is a pleasure to read and should be readily accessible to anyone with even a basic understanding of early American history.
   • On balance though, this book expertly manages to bring history alive and makes this important period in European and Moroccan history easily accessible to a wider audience.
   • Third, he made it all accessible to the intelligent layman in simple, lucid English.
   • The sooner educationalists use accessible and understandable terms, the more sensible their pronouncements will become.
   • Many of these methods are not yet widely used because they are not easily understood or packaged in accessible ways.
   • Although I imagine those with more knowledge of the other series will have a deeper understanding, it is still quite accessible to neophytes like myself.
   • For all his commitment to the faith and practice of the church, Childs has not written a commentary easily accessible to those working in the church.

   Synonyms

   understandable, comprehensible, easy to understand, easy to appreciate, intelligible, penetrable, fathomable, graspable, approachable
3. 1.3 Able to be reached or entered by people who have a disability.
   features such as nonslip floors and accessible entrances

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   • All of these tests were done in our large, airy, wheelchair accessible, multi-purpose community hall.
   • After a couple of months of rehabilitation at a Calgary hospital, Berg and van Breda moved to Steveston where they have purchased a home and made it wheelchair accessible.
   • With the aid of the community and its residents, we will raise the money to build a house that is wheelchair accessible.
   • The museum is wheelchair accessible and allows people of all ages and abilities to participate in what Gillies assures is an informative, educational and fun experience.
   • It is accessible for visitors using wheelchairs and there is limited disabled parking.
   • Improved student facilities would also be provided, along with better access for staff and student wheelchair users to ensure the new campus is 100 per cent wheelchair accessible.
   • Several key buildings in Waterford, including churches, are still not recognising the needs of disabled people because they're not wheelchair accessible.
   • The main entrance has been made wheelchair accessible and much improved.
   • The museum is fully accessible, and wheelchairs are available.
   • Should she return to work before then, it is likely that some adjustments would have to be made at the courts to make them more accessible for wheelchair users.
   • Almost the entire venue, including all stages and podiums, was wheelchair accessible.
   • Mayo County librarian, Austin Vaughan, told the Western People that the mobile library is currently being upgraded to become wheelchair accessible.
   • It's completely non-smoking, although there's a smoking room downstairs, and a sizeable flight of steps up to the front door means that it's not wheelchair accessible.
   • All Museum buildings are wheelchair accessible.
   • As a society we are still designing buses and taxis according to non-disabled norms, rather than ensuring that any taxi or bus is accessible for wheelchairs and prams and other exceptions to the norm.
   • Wendy, Jack and Caryn helped design Quarantine Reserve in 1988 to make sure it was fully accessible for people in wheelchairs, and even the barbecues have ramps so they can be used by all.
   • He said that it would not be possible to make the main entrance wheelchair accessible but that the council would try to widen some of the paths.
   • The case against MS sufferer Biz Ivol may have to be heard outwith Kirkwall Sheriff Court - as the building is not accessible for wheelchair users.
   • They also had to do a lot of construction on the building, redo all the plumbing and make it wheelchair accessible.
   • The restaurant is non-smoking and wheelchair accessible.

2(of a person, typically one in a position of authority or importance) friendly and easy to talk to; approachable.