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release seat

to remove an allocated place in a licence or subscription from the user or account that holds it so that it can be assigned to someone else.

In plain English

A seat is the place in a licence or subscription that is tied to one user or account. To release a seat is to untie that place from its current holder so it is available to give to someone else.

In context

Here, "release seat" names the action of removing the allocated place from the user or account that currently holds it so it can be assigned to someone else after the member change.

Situation
Plan membership, team seats, ownership transfer, and subscription administration
What it communicates
names the action for freeing a seat after a member change

Meaning limits

This term covers only ending the current allocation, not the separate act of assigning that place to the next user or account.

Examples

“When a contractor leaves, the admin releases the seat from that account and assigns it later.”

Core meaning

“After the member change, support released the seat from Priya's old account.”

In context

  • deallocate Broader Term

    Ending a seat allocation is a kind of deallocation.

  • assign seat Contrast

    This starts a new allocation, rather than ending the current one.