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PASSPORT
recommendation, passport
(noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission; “her pleasant personality is already a recommendation”; “his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society”
passport
(noun) a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country
pass, passport
(noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere; “the pass to visit had a strict time limit”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
passport (plural passports)
An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued.
(by extension, informal) Any document that allows entry or passage.
(figuratively) Something which enables someone to do or achieve something.
Anagrams
• pop stars, popstars, portpass
Source: Wiktionary
Pass"port (, n. Etym: [F. passeport, orig., a permission to leave a port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See Pass, and Port a harbor.]
1. Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.
2. A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.
3. A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct. Burrill.
4. Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. Sir P. Sidney. His passport is his innocence and grace. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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