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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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