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title: Role
description: A set of permissions granted to users on a team.
product: Glossary
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/glossary/role/
last_updated: "0001-01-01"
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# Role

A role is a set of [permissions](https://docs.digitalocean.com/glossary/permission/index.html.md) granted to users on a team.

A user’s role on a team determines the actions they can perform on that team’s resources across the DigitalOcean platform (within the control panel, API, and CLI). A user’s role on a team, therefore, also defines which [scopes](https://docs.digitalocean.com/glossary/scope/index.html.md) they can grant to API tokens they create on that team.

[Team Roles](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/teams/roles/index.html.md): Each team member has a role which determines their permissions on the team. Permissions grant varying levels of access to the team’s shared resources, billing information, and settings.