safe house

noun

: a place where one may engage in secret activities or take refuge

Examples of safe house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Ironically, the mansion was used as an Underground Railroad safe house after his death. Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 31 May 2024 Minutes after arriving at the airport on the Mexico side of the border in Nuevo Laredo — a cartel hub notorious for shake-downs and abductions of migrants — Guerrero said he and his wife and son were shoved into a vehicle and taken to a cartel safe house. Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2024 This episode finds Larry triggering multiple women who all happen to be taking shelter in a neighboring safe house. Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024 In the darkness of a Mosul safe house in which ten Iraqi soldiers slept, bluish light still emanated from the mobile devices of two intelligence officers busy locating suicide cars, IEDs, and Islamic State (ISIS) bases, and tracking down the names of ISIS members. Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2017 See all Example Sentences for safe house 

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Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of safe house was in 1928

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“Safe house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/safe%20house. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.

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