expired passport
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3.3
- noun
:
pasaporte caducado
Examples
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Someone might indeed be acting "hinky," but because they're carrying an expired passport or a nickel bag of drugs, not a bomb.
Blog text (34) -
What was an Argentinian citizen with an expired passport doing in Malabo on Victory Day, dressed in fancy clothes just bought at Burberry's, the store of choice of the British colony?
Fiction book (1996) -
Pertinent pages of the applicant's United States valid or expired passport identifying the applicant and the applicant's passport number, or presentation to the county election officer of the applicant's United States passport.
Blog text (31) -
Immigration officials tell them that an expired passport is insufficient, or that they must obtain their visa first from the French embassy in Haiti, or that a labor contract is needed, or that periods of undocumented residency disqualify them for regularization, etc.
Academic text (2003) -
He was refused boarding because he couldn't travel with an expired passport.
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Travelers should always check the validity of their expired passport before planning a trip.
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At the airport, they informed her that her expired passport would not allow her to enter the country.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a passport that is no longer valid' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'expired' (no longer valid after a specific period) with 'passport' (a travel/identity document). This adjective + noun compositional pattern is standard and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Expired passport comes from the simple image of a travel document whose date has passed. When something is expired, like food or medicine, it can no longer be used, so an expired passport is 'no longer valid' for travel or official ID.