e-passport

noun

a biometric passport

Meanings

noune-passport (plural e-passports)

plural e-passports

  1. a biometric passport

    The government has said in a paper on the UK’s post-Brexit border operating model that it will “ensure that EU, EEA and Swiss citizens may also continue to use our e-passport gates and the existing queueing arrangements”.

    2020 October 23, Daniel Boffey, “UK presses for use of faster passport gates at EU airports post-Brexit”, in The Guardian
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    A Home Office analysis seen by the Guardian has concluded that changes announced by Philip Hammond on Wednesday, which allow citizens from seven other countries including the US to use e-passports to travel through Britain, will slow down UK citizens’ journey times.

    2019 March 13, Rajeev Syal, “E-passport changes will cause longer queues for Britons, leak reveals”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin

  1. Englishelectronic
  2. Englishe-
  3. Englishpassport
  4. Englishe-passport

From e- + passport.

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APA

e-passport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/e-passport

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Chicago

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