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Definition of "safe-conduct" []

  • An official document or an escort assuring unmolested passage, as through enemy territory. (noun)
  • The protection afforded by such a document. (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.

Use "safe-conduct" in a sentence
  • "And how to accomplish all this while allowing Israelis the safe-conduct of their own lives."
  • "It seems, said the letter writer, that the general had obtained from the U.S. government a safe-conduct, in order that Com."
  • "Forced to swallow it whole, he endured the four years of repeated jabs and investigation for his safe-conduct to leave the country, which the minister of his branch still had not signed."
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