pass-through

American  

[pas-throo, pahs-] / ˈpæsˌθru, ˈpɑs- /

Or passthrough

noun

1. a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.

2. 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.

3. passalong.

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adjective

1. denoting a pass-through; passalong.

Etymology

Origin of pass-through

1950–55, noun and adj. use of verb phrase pass through

Example Sentences

“But broad-based and open-ended measures may add excessively to demand and strengthen the pass-through.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“The effects depend on many factors, such as labor market tightness, developments in inflation expectations, and the extent of cost pass-through to core inflation.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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

“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

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