Definition of "passport" []

• An official government document that certifies one's identity and citizenship and permits a citizen to travel abroad. (noun)
• An official permit issued by a foreign country allowing one to transport goods or to travel through that country. (noun)
• An official document issued by an allied foreign government to a ship, especially a neutral merchant ship in time of war, authorizing it to enter and travel through certain waters freely. (noun)
• Something that gives one the right or privilege of passage, entry, or acceptance: Hard work was her passport to success. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term passport "is not supposed to be funny: it has been widely discussed and approved," says one EC agriculture official."
• ""For us the passport is the official identity form," he added."
• "The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has said repeatedly that a passport is the "accepted proof of a gymnast's eligibility," and that He and China's other gymnasts have presented ones that show they are age eligible."