to pass
- verb
- /pæs/
- Specialized
- This obligation passed from father to son or to whoever held the land.
- pass property to
- pass to succeeding generations
- pass land to
And then he'll pass the crown on to Don Junior.
- And then he'll pass the crown on to Don Junior.
- Your house is going to go through probate to pass ownership.
- She goes, someone open the door for me so that I could pass this torch to you.
- So, you know, at that point it passes to, you know, the heirs with no tax.
- She needs to ensure that what she has inherited, that is what she's going to pass it on.
Examples
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And then he'll pass the crown on to Don Junior.
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And now I pass my client's fate into your hands.
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Then my brother died and everything passed to me.
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''l pass it on to you as my father passed it on to me.
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The mark of what you have done will be passed from one ship to another.
Fiction book (1992) -
My powers will pass to Maximus... to hold in trust... until the senate is ready to rule once more.
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For centuries, philosophers passed down to each other an old piece of moral casuistry.
Academic text (1999) -
The judge will pass the ownership of the property to the new buyer.
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After years of hard work, she was finally able to pass the family business to her children.
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The land is passed from the previous owner to the new residents upon sale.
Synonyms
Give something to someone because you have to
To make someone else the owner of something
Come to someone as a duty
Give ownership of something to another person by signing papers
To be sold or given to a new owner
Give up rights or property by agreeing to it in writing
Give your rights in property to another person
To officially give property or rights to someone
To give duties or power to others
To give property to someone using a signed paper
Give ownership of property to another person using a legal document
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To give responsibility or control to another person during a planned change
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
Send a value or setting from a main part of a program to its smaller parts
Compounds
- Informal
An excuse that lets someone avoid rules or blame because of their position
- US
A written note from a teacher that allows a student to leave class and go into the hallway
- Specialized
A device that lets slow changes in signals pass and reduces fast changes
- NSFW
Permission from a partner to be romantic or sexual with someone outside the relationship
A mountain road through the Alps that links Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy
A narrow mountain route between Pakistan and Afghanistan used for trade and army movements
- NSFW
A high mountain pass near Lake Tahoe where trapped pioneers ate human flesh to survive
- Jargon
A short forward pass to a player running toward the sideline in American football
- Jargon
A pass that goes sideways or backward instead of forward in American football
- Specialized
An electronic part that lets high sounds pass and reduces low sounds
- Specialized
A setting that lets signals or data pass through unchanged to another device
How Formal
- Formal
- Formal
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pass comes from the Old French passer and the Latin passus, meaning 'to move across' or 'a step'. When ownership or rights pass to someone, they move across to the new person, like passing an object along.