passage

passage
passage pas‧sage [ˈpæsɪdʒ] noun [uncountable]
LAW the progress of a law, bill etc through parliament before it takes effect:

• A month after its passage, Italy's insider-trading law is continuing to stir debate.

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• One result of the oil crisis could be a slowdown in the passage of a tougher Clean Air Act.

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passage UK US /ˈpæsɪdʒ/ noun
[C] (also passageway /ˈpæsɪdzweɪ/) a usually long and narrow part of a building with rooms on one or both sides, or a covered path which connects places: »

There's a passage on the side of the building – the maintenance department is along there.

[C] a short piece of writing that is part of a larger piece of work: »

There's one passage in the report which seems incorrect.

[U] an act of moving through a place: »

Despite security checks, our passage through the airport was fairly quick.

[U or S] the way that time passes: »

The directors are hopeful that, with the passage of time, trading conditions will improve.

[ U] official approval of something, especially a new law: passage of sth »

Protesters are opposing passage of the new energy bill through parliament.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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  • Passage — (de) …   Kölsch Dialekt Lexikon

  • Passage — Passage …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

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  • Passage — Pas sage, n. [F. passage. See {Pass}, v. i.] 1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • passage — Passage, m. penac. Signifie tantost l allée et le voyage d un lieu à autre, Profectio. Le passage de l armée est dangereux, Plena periculi res est, exercitus praefectio. Prendre un Faulcon au passage, Accipitrem in ipsa migratione intercipere. Et …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • passage — Passage. s. m. v. Action de passer. Durant le passage de l armée. je ne veux point de maison sur ce chemin là, elle est trop sujette au passage des gens de guerre. durant le passage des ramiers. des hirondelles, des cailles. On appelle, Oyseaux… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

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  • Passage — (französisch für „Durchgang“) steht für einen Seeweg Passagierbeförderung im Luftverkehr, siehe Flugreise eine Landenge (z. B. die Philadelphi Passage) die Passage Insel, eine der australischen Bellevue Inseln eine astronomischen Erscheinung …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Passage — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Cuarto disco de estudio de la banda suiza Samael. Nuevamente bajo la producción de Waldemar Sorychta, Samael consolidó el nuevo sonido en que se había embarcado desde Ceremony of Opposites, aunque ahora bastante más… …   Wikipedia Español

  • passage — / passageway [n1] path for travel access, alley, alleyway, avenue, channel, corridor, course, doorway, entrance, entrance hall, exit, gap, hall, hallway, lane, line, lobby, opening, pathway, road, route, shaft, subway, thoroughfare, tunnel,… …   New thesaurus

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