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passport

noun [C]
 
 
/ˈpɑːs.pɔːt/ US  /ˈpæs.pɔːrt/

Definition

A2 an official document containing personal information and usually a photograph that allows a person to travel to foreign countries and to prove who they are: Many refugees have arrived at the border without passports. He was a German, travelling on a Swiss passport. passport control (= the examining of travellers' passports) a passport photoOfficial documentsIdentifyingTravelling a passport to sth C2 a certain way of getting something you want: Many students opt for business studies simply because it sounds like a passport to a good job. Beauty alone can be a passport to success.Ways of achieving things
(Definition of passport noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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