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Narrator: Today's word is "Revoke" — verb, pronounced /rɪˈvəʊk/, with the stress on "voke".
Narrator: To revoke is to officially cancel a law, decision, licence or permission.
Narrator: In plain English, it means take back permission.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin revocare, to call back.
Narrator: A common collocation is "revoke access", which describes removing someone's rights to a system.
Narrator: It differs from "suspend", because suspend is temporary, while revoke cancels.
Narrator: In a second sense, you can revoke consent, such as for marketing emails.
Narrator: Law, IT security, government and HR all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: revoke means call back permission.
Speaker A: Why can't the old intern log in?
Speaker B: We REVOKED his access! It comes from Latin for calling back.
Speaker A: On his last day?
Speaker B: Standard practice.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "His driving licence was revoked", law. "Revoke the old API keys", security. "Users can revoke consent at any time", privacy.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: The noun is "revocation", not "revokation".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Cancel is its cousin, rescind its twin, and withdraw an alternative — yet revoke keeps its firm charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "revoke" in AI prompts — useful for access management and privacy settings.
Speaker A: How for access?
Speaker B: Offboard staff.
Prompt: Write an offboarding checklist to revoke a leaver’s access to every company system.
Speaker A: And privacy?
Speaker B: Give control.
Prompt: Add a settings page where users can revoke third-party app permissions.
Speaker A: Could it help code?
Speaker B: Yes, for sessions.
Prompt: Write an endpoint that revokes all active sessions for a user.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Audit.
Prompt: List accounts with unused access that should be revoked this month.
Revoke — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary