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boarding pass

noun

  1. a pass that authorizes a passenger to board an aircraft and is issued after one's ticket has been purchased or collected.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boarding pass1

First recorded in 1965–70

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Example Sentences

Tickets will be free, but anyone who has ever denied anthropogenic climate change will be automatically denied a boarding pass.

Personal effects as small as a boarding pass or passport showed no sign of fire.

Of his last five flights, he writes, he only scored an encoded boarding pass on three.

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