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internal passports

internal passports is the plural of internal passport.

Meaning of internal passport

Noun

internal passport (plural internal passports)

  1. A personal identity document that may be used by a country to control and monitor the internal movement and residence of its citizens.
    • To prevent the starving peasants from fleeing to the towns an internal passport system was introduced and unauthorized change of residence was made punishable with imprisonment.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...

Questions about internal passports

What is internal passports the plural of?
Internal passports is the plural of internal passport.

Words near internal passports in the dictionary

  1. internal obliques
  2. internal occipital protuberance
  3. internal organ
  4. internal organs
  5. internal passport
  6. internal passports
  7. internal perception
  8. internal reconstruction
  9. internal reconstructions
  10. internal refugee
  11. internal refugees

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