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trekpasses

trekpasses is the plural of trekpass.

Meaning of trekpass

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

Questions about trekpasses

What is trekpasses the plural of?
Trekpasses is the plural of trekpass.

Words near trekpasses in the dictionary

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

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