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SAFE-CONDUCT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does safe-conduct mean?
• SAFE-CONDUCT (noun)
The noun SAFE-CONDUCT has 1 sense:
1. a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
Familiarity information: SAFE-CONDUCT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
safe-conduct; safeguard
Hypernyms ("safe-conduct" is a kind of...):
Context examples
But if you think such evil of us, how comes it that you have trusted yourselves to us without warranty or safe-conduct?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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