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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 warplay

  Familiarity information: SAFE-CONDUCT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SAFE-CONDUCT (noun)


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...):

pass; passport (any authorization to pass or go somewhere)


 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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