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laissez-passer

laissez-passer

English

Noun

laissez-passer (plural laissez-passers)

  1. A pass or permit; a document permitting the bearer to travel, sometimes issued as an emergency passport.
    • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 385:
      ‘Find the British Consul, and Jane can claim she lost her money and passport. He'll issue her with some kind of laissez-passer.’

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛ.se.pa.se/

Noun

laissez-passer m (plural laissez-passer)

  1. pass (document granting permission to pass or to go and come)