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trekpass

trekpass noun: a letter authorizing or requiring a non-white person to leave a certain area; an order of eviction or banishment.

Noun

trekpass (plural trekpasses)

  1. (South Africa, historical) A letter authorizing or requiring a non-white person to leave a certain area; an order of eviction or banishment.
    • His resistance of the eviction attempts is said to have lasted from about 1952 when he was first served with a trekpass, to 1964 when he finally vacated.2002, Bakone Justice Moloto, Land Claims Court of South Africa case LCC 3/00https://web.archive.org/web/20200703080215/https://www.justice.gov.za/lcc/jdgm/2002/3-00.pdf
    • This brought about untold suffering to those on whom the trekpass orders applied.2015, Chris Jafta, Constitutional Court of South Africa Case CCT 231/14

Forms of trekpass

pluraltrekpasses
alternative formtrek pass

Questions about trekpass

What does trekpass mean?
Trekpass means a letter authorizing or requiring a non-white person to leave a certain area; an order of eviction or banishment.
What part of speech is trekpass?
Trekpass is a noun.
What is the plural of trekpass?
The plural of trekpass is trekpasses.

Words near trekpass in the dictionary

  1. Treklit
  2. treknical
  3. treknobabble
  4. Treknological
  5. Treknology
  6. trekpass
  7. trekpasses
  8. trekpath
  9. trekpaths
  10. treks
  11. trekschuit

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