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  • adjective Without a passport.

Etymologies

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passport +‎ -less

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Examples

  • A regional common currency and Shengen passportless travel arrangement.

    Firedoglake » Great Op-Ed in the Washington Post 2006

  • Nafta should include the entire hemisphere imho and include a common currency, passportless travel and a smaller but smarter military.

    Firedoglake » Zombie Journalism Moves to MSNBC 2006

  • She had bought her way past officials for Lilith and Ian, who were passportless, and had to pay a little more for Egyptian visas for herself and her crew.

    Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002

  • She had bought her way past officials for Lilith and Ian, who were passportless, and had to pay a little more for Egyptian visas for herself and her crew.

    Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life Whitley Strieber 2002

  • I suggested telegraphing to Geneva for my passport, but that was vetoed, and it was decided that I should return as I had come -- passportless.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • Looking at the map, it seemed to me that, in spite of being passportless, I might be able somehow to make my way up through Morvern and Arisaig to the latitude of Skye.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • Regarding fugitives or passportless wanderers in general, I may here remark parenthetically that there were two kinds.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • Maslova's removal to the prison hospital, and about the 130 passportless men innocently imprisoned.

    Voskresenie. English Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • Still, I suppose we finally got to understand why (though not how) Leila's dad - last seen relaxing on the sofa with a nice glass of red wine - took it upon himself to rush out and hijack a plane and why (though not how) the moneyless, passportless Sean slipped FBI custody, acquired a gun and somehow got through airport security to follow him aboard.

    The Guardian World News Phil Hogan 2010

  • The story - now canonized by conspiracists - of the well dressed man trying to finagle a passportless Abdulmutallab onto the plane seems to be without foundation.

    CounterPunch 2010

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