pass-through
Americannoun
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a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
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a place through which one passes or is obliged to pass.
Motorists used the park as a pass-through. The new gate will be a pass-through for security clearance.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of pass-through
1950–55, noun and adj. use of verb phrase pass through
Example Sentences
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At the time, Super Micro’s compliance department had paused shipments of servers to an Asian company that, according to prosecutors, was used as a pass-through to hide the servers’ ultimate destination in China.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
The scheme involved a "pass-through" company based in Southeast Asia used to obscure where the servers packed with Nvidia GPUs were actually going, prosecutors maintain.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
“These defendants allegedly fabricated documents, staged bogus equipment to pass audit inventories, and used a pass-through company to conceal their misconduct and true clientele list,” federal prosecutors said.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026
“Meaningful pass-through from higher global energy prices to core CPI is unlikely given excess slack in the Canadian economy, but that is an upside risk the longer the war drags on,” Davenport said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
I ran to the door and pressed my face to the closed pass-through.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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