safe-conduct
Guaranteed passage document
Safe-conduct is official protection granted to someone passing through hostile or foreign territory, or the document guaranteeing such protection.
A medieval herald might carry a letter of safe-conduct through enemy lines; a diplomat might receive safe-conduct to leave a country during wartime.
The term implies formal assurance that the bearer won't be harmed, detained, or arrested: The ambassador was granted safe-conduct to the border.
Move beyond or decline
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- permitOfficial written authorization
- laissez-passerAuthorization for unrestricted passage
- warrantFormal authorization document
credential · visa · letter · charter · certificate · papers · authorization · clearance
One who accompanies another
- convoyGuarded traveling group
- guardWatchful defensive attention
- bodyguardPaid personal security agent
- accompanimentSupplementary support element
shield · security · defense · custody · guardianship · passage · transit · crossing
Formal promise of fulfillment
- assuranceFirm promise or certainty
- pledgeBinding promise given
- amnestyGroup pardon from authorities
- exemptionRelease from requirement
privilege · indemnity · inviolability · sanctuary · asylum · clemency · pardon · nonprosecution
pass
Move beyond or decline
- passportGovernment-issued travel credential
- permitOfficial written authorization
- laissez-passerAuthorization for unrestricted passage
warrant · credential · visa · letter · charter · certificate · papers · authorization · clearance · license
escort
One who accompanies another
accompaniment · shield · security · defense · custody · guardianship · passage · transit · crossing · corridor
guarantee
Formal promise of fulfillment
exemption · privilege · indemnity · inviolability · sanctuary · asylum · clemency · pardon · nonprosecution · promise
ambassador
Official foreign representative
- envoyAccredited diplomatic representative
- emissaryAgent sent abroad
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
treaty · truce · parley · armistice · ceasefire · embassy · consul · delegation · mediation · neutrality
herald
Official news announcer
- messengerOne who delivers communications
- pilgrimageReligious journey to shrine
- crusadeZealous effort for change
medieval · feudal · knight · siege · hostage · ransom · surrender · capitulation · wartime · battlefield
safe-conductarrest warrant
Judicial order authorizing detention
interdiction · travel ban · death warrant · bounty · banishment
safe-conductbanishment
Forced removal from place
exile · expulsion · deportation order · persona non grata · blacklisting
safe-conductambush
Surprise strike from concealment
endangerment · peril · vulnerability · death warrant · bounty
safe, safety, conduct, safeguard, safely, conductor, salvage, conducting, conducted