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passport
/ˈpæspɔɹt/
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What does passport mean?
noun
- An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued.
- (informal) Any document that allows entry or passage.
- (figuratively) Something which enables someone to do or achieve something.
More meanings (4)
noun
- An identification document used by firefighters, collected when they enter a dangerous area and returned when they leave, to keep track of who is still in the area.
verb
- To regulate how money given to a local authority must be spent.
- Providing the legal requirements to enable or legitimize cross-border economic activity.
- To enable eligibility for a benefit automatically based on eligibility for a different benefit.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpæspɔɹt/
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To accord others welcome, denotes your congeniality and warm nature will be your passport into pleasures, or any other desired place.
As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself.
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The treasury, whose nature it is to spoil the best things, has made the passport a means of espionage and a tax.
The passport office is in the second story of a mud hovel, and is reached by a dilapidated flight of out-door stairs.
The governor said that the British minister had not been sent away from Copenhagen, but had obtained a passport at his own demand.