PASSPORT

[noun] [C] - an official document or small book containing some personal information and usually a photograph which is given to people by their own government to allow them to travel to foreign countries and to prove who they areMany refugees have arrived at the border without passports and with only the clothes they are wearing.As an American working in France, I was disgusted that my new-born daughter was not granted a French passport.He was a German, but travelling on a Swiss passport.Where trains cross the frontier, customs and passport control (= the examining of travellers' passports) are handled on board.You'll need to provide a passport photo for your membership card.(figurative) Can beauty alone be a passport to (= a certain way of getting) success, or is some touch of genius required?(figurative) Some careers officers fear that students opt too readily for business studies simply because it sounds like a passport to (= an easy way to obtain) a good job.