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Expand Up @@ -1479,8 +1479,8 @@ A **permission** is the ability to perform a specific action. For example, the a
A **role** is a set of permissions that can be assigned to a user. Roles exist at different levels.

- Accounts (e.g., organization owner, billing manager for an enterprise account)
- Resources (e.g., "Write" for a repository, "Admin" for a security advisory)
- Teams (e.g., "team maintainer")
- Resources (e.g., write for a repository, admin for a security advisory)
- Teams (e.g., team maintainer)

A person's **access** refers generally to all the abilities the person has in a particular context, regardless of which roles or individual permissions those abilities come from.

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- **Use:** Managing a team's access to your organization's repository
- **Use:** If your team membership gives you a different level of access than your role as organization owner…
- **Use:** People with write access can…
- **Avoid:** People with the write access can...
- **Avoid:** People with the write role can…
- **Avoid:** People with write permissions can…
- **Avoid:** People with write privileges can…
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