laissez-passer
noun
a permit; pass, especially one issued in lieu of a passport.
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laissez passernouna document granting unrestricted access or movement to its holder
laissez-passer
American
[les-ey-pa-sey, le-sey-pah-sey]
/ ˈlɛs eɪ pæˈseɪ, lɛ seɪ pɑˈseɪ /
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laissez-passers,
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laissez-passer
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laissez passer
British
/ lese pase /
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Origin of laissez-passer
< French: literally, allow to pass
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He carried a laissez-passer from the Eritrean government, allowing him a one-time entry into the country.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2016
Unsuccessful asylum-seekers often cannot be sent back to their home countries if they do not have passports, and getting laissez-passer paperwork recognized often takes a long time.
From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2015
An EU "laissez-passer" is suggested to aid procedures in home or transit countries and should become "the standard travel document for the expulsion of third-country nationals".
From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2015
His so- called laissez-passer travel document issued by the United Nations will be given to his lawyers, who will turn it over to prosecutors, according to the filing.
From BusinessWeek ● May 19, 2011
To satisfy them we had only a passport and a laissez-passer issued by General von Jarotsky, the new German military governor of Brussels, and his chief of staff, Lieutenant Geyer.
From With the Allies by Richard Harding Davis
On one of them was found a laissez passer in the name of Edward Seyer, of Badonviller.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
Let human institutions conform to nature; enlarge the bounds of freedom; give play to the spirit of individualism; diminish the interference of government—"laissez faire, laissez passer."
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
We have been wrong, says Rossi, in reproaching Quesnay for his famous laissez faire, laissez passer, which is pure science.
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
He was always decent to Americans, and he was shocked when he found that his laissez passer, which I obtained from him for the Hon. D. I.
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Maurice Francis Egan
The famous axiom, laissez faire, and laissez passer, the subversive tendencies of which people affect to condemn, was not invented by Quesnay.
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
Her hands were steady; she was even smiling as she produced two neat little packets that, on being unfolded, proved to have all the air of permits, laissez-passers, and police cards.
From The Firefly of France by Marion Polk Angellotti
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