passport
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French passeport, from passer (“pass”) + port (“port”). Compare portpass. Equivalent to pass + port.
Base: passer
Inflected forms:
form: passports
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: passports
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: passporting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: passported
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: passported
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued.
pos: noun
examples: You will have to bring your passport to prove who you are.
Meanwhile, the Italian authorities examine passports and hand-baggage, except in the case of sleeping-car passengers, who are usually left undisturbed.
Dagobert gave him back his passport. He re-pocketed it indifferently; a talisman which had lost its potency.
gloss: Any document that allows entry or passage.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
gloss: Something which enables someone to do or achieve something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The tenor's voice was his passport to the international concert circuit.
Thus like the ſad preſaging Rauen that tolls / The ſick mans paſſeport in her hollovv beake, / And in the ſhadovv of the ſilent night / Doth ſhake contagion from her ſable vvings; / Vex'd and tormented runnes poore Barabas / VVith fatall curſes tovvards theſe Chriſtians.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: To regulate how money given to a local authority must be spent.
pos: verb
examples: Did we not pass an Act last year which passported the money directly through to the schools and gave local authorities very little discretion?
They are talking about whether the money that goes into district councils ends up getting passported through to the operators through concessionary fares.
gloss: Providing the legal requirements to enable or legitimize cross-border economic activity.
pos: verb
examples: Apart from the condition in (ii), which may easily be overcome via an agreement between the depositor and the bank, European legislation does not preclude the entry of Islamic financial undertakings on the internal market at EU-based credit institutions because banking directives allow European credit institutions to perform not only the core banking business, but also passported activities according to the principle of mutual recognition and home country control.
Also, in this context, rules are different in relation to passporting the asset managers' activities, or the product […]
She was announcing that a “draft law on criminal liability for forced Russian passporting” had been approved, which was “aimed primarily at punishing the organisers of hostile passporting and their accomplices”.
gloss: To enable eligibility for a benefit automatically based on eligibility for a different benefit.
pos: verb
examples: At present, recipients of Working Tax Credit who are not also in receipt of Child Tax Credit are automatically passported to a full fee remission in some courts and tribunals, and those in receipt of Working Tax Credit and in receipt of child tax credit are passported in others (see annex B).
Related words: ID card
identification card
identity card
portpass
visa
Derived words: biological passport
biometric passport
camouflage passport
emergency passport
e-passport
golden passport
immunization passport
internal passport
Nansen passport
official passport
passportable
passport baby
passport bro
passport card
passported
passportification
passporting
passportization
passportize
passportless
passport prison
passport privilege
vaccine passport
yellow passport
Translations:
lang: Greek
word: διαβατήριο
roman: diavatírio
lang: Russian
word: про́пуск
roman: própusk
lang: Russian
word: биле́т
roman: bilét