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passport

 
 
/ˈpɑːspɔːt/ noun

Definition

[C] an official document, often a small book, that you need to enter or leave a country: a British passport
a passport to sth something that allows you to achieve something else: Education is a passport to a better life.
(Definition of passport noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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