safe house

noun

1. 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

1. a place used secretly by undercover agents, terrorists, etc, as a meeting place or refuge

Word History and Origins

Origin of safe house¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

While she waits in a safe house in Kabul, a 30-minute walk to the airport, I have contacted every lead possible to get her on a flight out.

From The Daily Beast

Even though I’m staying in my safe house, actually I’m not safe.

From Time

They were rescued and extracted by the network and were being held in a safe house while the work was being done with foreign partners to try and get them out.

From Washington Blade

I spent nights full of terror inside those safe houses, when rumors were flying about people who might have been seen, locations that might have been revealed, dangers that might have been heightened – I felt that with them.

From Washington Blade

He had people helping him find these safe houses or whatever.

From ProPublica

The year before that Alfredo had been taken alive in a police raid on a safe house in Culiacán.

From The Daily Beast

There, Artichoke interrogation experiments were taking place at a safe house called Haus Waldorf.

From The Daily Beast

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 The Daily Beast

From a safe house it had set up earlier in Abbottabad, the CIA continued to watch the compound.

From The Daily Beast

On Friday, public-security agents detained He Peirong, an activist who drove him from his village to a safe house.

From The Daily Beast

So far as I could learn, the Stopfords had given no ornaments to state or church, but theirs was pre-eminently a safe house.

From Project Gutenberg

But she thinks only of the sailors drowning, and gnashing their teeth for hate of the "warm safe house."

From Project Gutenberg

She generally regards the school as a safe house of detention, a sort of day nursery of larger growth.

From Project Gutenberg

Emma wanted to bribe her servant with a present, but it would be better to find some safe house at Yonville.

From Project Gutenberg

All the officers, who have pledged themselves to assist my undertaking, are concealed in a safe house rented for this purpose.

From Project Gutenberg