safe house

noun

1. a dwelling or building whose conventional appearance makes it a safe or inconspicuous place for hiding, taking refuge, or carrying on clandestine activities.

safe house

noun

1. a place used secretly by undercover agents, terrorists, etc, as a meeting place or refuge

Word History and Origins

Origin of safe house¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

She also tweeted that “the suspect escaped into the Antifa safe house.”

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Social services, such as safe houses for abused women and their children, are often scarce or nonexistent in rural areas.

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Now 19, she has spent the past year raising her daughter in a safe house in a suburb of the city.

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The interview was co-ordinated by the SBU and conducted at a derelict building in Zaporizhzhia being used as a kind of safe house by the service, which confirmed the basic facts of Kurashov's life.

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The men allegedly kept the drugs inside a safe house on Wilmington Avenue in Compton, the U.S.

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