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Safe-conduct

Definition: Safe-conduct

Safe-conduct

Noun

1. A document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "safe-conduct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonym: Safe-conduct

Synonym: safeguard (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Safe-conduct

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Instrumentality

Opener; key; master key, passkey, latchkey; " open sesame "; passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct, password.

Safety

Safe-conduct, escort, convoy; guard, shield; (defense); guardian angel; tutelary god, tutelary deity, tutelary saint; genius loci.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Safe-conduct

English words defined with "safe-conduct": Passe partout, Pedage. (references)
Specialty definitions using "safe-conduct": Jarkman. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Safe-conduct

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Last French and Indian War: An Inquiry into a Safe-Conduct Issued in 1760 That Acquired the Value of a Treaty in 1990 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Safe-conduct

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Colombia

In areas where counterinsurgency operations were underway, police or military officials occasionally required civilians to obtain safe-conduct passes; paramilitary forces and guerrillas often used similar means to restrict travel in areas under their control. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Safe-conduct

Language Translations for "safe-conduct"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

安全举办. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

안 하 지휘하십시". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

afe-conductsay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

особая охрана. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fri lejd (safe conduct). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เอกสารอนุญาตให้ผ่านไ"้โ"ยเฉพาะช่วงสงคราม. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Safe-conduct

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-f-n-o-s-t-u"

-2 letters: accounted, outdances.

-3 letters: accosted, accounts, coenacts, conduces, conducts, confects, confused, confuted, confutes, contused, cosecant, endocast, fadeouts, outdance, outfaced, outfaces, stuccoed, tacnodes, uncoated.

-4 letters: accents, account, accused, acetous, acnodes, astound, coacted, coasted, coenact, conatus, conduce, conduct, confect, confuse, confute, contuse, coteaus, counted, deacons, decants, decocts, defocus, defunct, descant, docents, donates, fadeout, fantods, faucets, focused, fondest, fondues, nutcase, octanes, outface, scanted, sconced, scouted, snafued, snouted, soutane, tacnode, toucans, unacted, uncased, unsated.

-5 letters: accent, accost, accuse, acnode, acutes, anodes, ascend, ascent, atoned, atones, autoed, cactus, cadent, cadets, canoed, canoes, canted, cantos, cantus, caused, centas, centos, coacts, coated, codecs, codens, contes, costae, costed, cotans, coteau, counts, cuesta, dances, daunts, deacon, decafs, decant, decoct, defats, docent, donate, donuts, ducats, dunces, educts, enacts, escudo, facets, fantod, fasted, fasten, fauces, faucet, fecund, foetus, fondue, fondus, founds, founts, fucose, funest, futons, nudest, oceans, octads, octane, octans, ounces, ousted, sauced, sauted, sconce, secant, second, secund, soften, soudan, stance, staned, stoned, stound, stucco, sundae, toucan, toused, uncase, undoes, unsafe, unseat, usance.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Safe-conduct


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 61 66 65 2D 63 6F 6E 64 75 63 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100001 01100110 01100101 00101101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100100 01110101 01100011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#97 &#102 &#101 &#45 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#100 &#117 &#99 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 0066 0065 002D 0063 006F 006E 0064 0075 0063 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536772711569818070876986

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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