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noun An official government document that certifies one's identity and citizenship and permits a citizen to travel abroad.
noun An official permit issued by a foreign country allowing one to transport goods or to travel through that country.
noun An official document issued by an allied foreign government to a ship, especially a neutral merchant ship in time of war, authorizing it to enter and travel through certain waters freely.

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A document issued by competent civil authority, granting permission to the person specified in it to travel, or authenticating his right to protection. In some states no person is allowed to leave the country without a passport from his government, but the regulations of different jurisdictions regarding the use of passports have varied much, and of late years have exhibited a tendency toward a relaxation of stringency, extending in many countries to their total abolition. Passports must give a description of the person. Those of the United States(1887) “request all whom it may concern to permit —safely and freely to pass, and in case of need to give (him) all lawful Aid and Protection,” and are given under the seal of the Secretary of State. Passports may be given for goods as well as for persons; and in time of war a ship's passport is a voucher of her neutral character. Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 3. 36.
A safe-conduct granted in time of war for persons and effects in a hostile country. Burrill. Many desyred leaue to departe to the towne of Conception, where they had graneges and exercised tyllage. He gaue them theyr passeportes with alowance of vytayles, soo that only thyrtie remayned with hym. R. Eden, tr. of Peter Martyr (First Books on America, ed. [Arber, p. 92).
A license for importing or exporting goods subject to duty without paying the usual duties.—4. Anything which enables one to pass with safety or certainty; a certificate; a voucher. Neyther Phylosopher nor Historiographer coulde at the first haue entred into the gates of populer iudgements if they had not taken a great pasport of Poetry. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. His passport is his innocence and grace. Dryden, Death of Amyntas, l. 76. This Ring shall be the passport of Intelligence. Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, iv. 1. For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another. … Provided with plenty of money, and the passport of an old name, I could choose my own society. Charlotte Brontė, Jane Eyre, xxvii.

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The older man interrupted to point out that I seemed very fluent in German, whereas my passport was a British one My Grossmutter came from Germany," I told him From so-called Northern East Prussia, Herr Burn?" — F ;SF - vol 089 issue 02 - August 1995
Do spread your credit cards around your person and make sure your passport is as secure as possible. — Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
Your passport is the property of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and he certainly can withhold it from you for whatever reason. — Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
A condition precedent for an Irish passport is Irish citizenship. — Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
Besides, losing a passport is a time-consuming adventure I do not want to experience. — CrazyAuntPurl

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