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safe house
noun
- a dwelling or building whose conventional appearance makes it a safe or inconspicuous place for hiding, taking refuge, or carrying on clandestine activities.
safe house
noun
- a place used secretly by undercover agents, terrorists, etc, as a meeting place or refuge
Word History and Origins
Origin of safe house1
Example Sentences
The year before that Alfredo had been taken alive in a police raid on a safe house in Culiacán.
There, Artichoke interrogation experiments were taking place at a safe house called Haus Waldorf.
When Richie showed up, they told him the money was in an apartment a few doors down that the gang used as a safe house.
From a safe house it had set up earlier in Abbottabad, the CIA continued to watch the compound.
On Friday, public-security agents detained He Peirong, an activist who drove him from his village to a safe house.
So far as I could learn, the Stopfords had given no ornaments to state or church, but theirs was pre-eminently a safe house.
But she thinks only of the sailors drowning, and gnashing their teeth for hate of the "warm safe house."
She generally regards the school as a safe house of detention, a sort of day nursery of larger growth.
Emma wanted to bribe her servant with a present, but it would be better to find some safe house at Yonville.
All the officers, who have pledged themselves to assist my undertaking, are concealed in a safe house rented for this purpose.
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