diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index 8a362b9a4cc7c607fddc6c2e38a458ee5d500c23..52641dddc7aa68ded162c1d240b0fadfdd056e3d 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@ Sockets are consumable resources.
 On nodes with multiple cores, each core or thread is counted as a CPU
 to satisfy a job's resource requirement, but multiple jobs are not
 allocated resources on the same socket.
-Note that jobs requesting one CPU will only be given access to
+Note that jobs requesting one CPU will only be allocated
 that one CPU, but no other job will share the socket.
 .TP
 \fBCR_Socket_Memory\fR
@@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@ Memory and sockets are consumable resources.
 On nodes with multiple cores, each core or thread is counted as a CPU
 to satisfy a job's resource requirement, but multiple jobs are not
 allocated resources on the same socket.
-Note that jobs requesting one CPU will only be given access to
+Note that jobs requesting one CPU will only be allocated
 that one CPU, but no other job will share the socket.
 Setting a value for \fBDefMemPerCPU\fR is strongly recommended.
 .TP