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free pass

noun

Definitions

  1. A document entitling the bearer to free transportation.

    • As a railwayman put it to me: "When I saw chums of mine took their families down there by car, I could see the writing on the wall. We all had free passes, yet they got the car out!"

  2. An exemption from normal processes.

    • At the same time, however, no one is entitled to a free pass to the nation's highest court.
    • “A tiny elite appear to have a free pass to pollute,” said Nafkote Dabi, climate policy lead at Oxfam, which commissioned the study by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).

  3. An intentional walk.

    • Smith was issued a free pass after Jones' double.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA