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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
safe passage
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Instead, Fujimori has offered to provide safe passage out of the country for rebels if they liberate all the captives.
▪ It confined transoceanic vessels to a few narrow shipping lanes that promised safe passage.
▪ On Jan. 31, the government promised safe passage to Sikh militants taking up the Prime Minister's offer of peace talks.
▪ That channel is one of only three in the whole archipelago that will allow a nuclear submarine safe passage.
▪ The gunmen released most hostages and headed for Chechnya with the rest after receiving a promise of safe passage.
▪ The water of the red sea divided so as to ensure safe passage for the Israelite.
▪ There was risk involved in going, and no guarantee of safe passage.
▪ They call themselves Rektum, and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage.
Wikipedia
Safe Passage (charity)

Safe Passage or Camino Seguro is a non-profit organization that provides school enrollment and after-school support for poor children whose families scavenge the Guatemala City Garbage Dump in Guatemala City. Safe Passage was founded in 1999 by the late Hanley Denning. The organization assists over 550 children.

Safe Passage

Safe Passage could refer to various subjects:

  • Safe Passage (charity) - a non-profit organization based in Yarmouth, Maine, U.S.A., supporting families in Guatemala City
  • Safe Passage (film) - a 1994 film (based on Ellyn Bache's novel) starring Susan Sarandon
  • Palestinian freedom of movement#Gaza—West Bank Safe Passage - A safe route between Gaza and West Bank for Palestinians
Safe Passage (film)

Safe Passage is a 1994 English language drama film starring Susan Sarandon, and featuring Nick Stahl, Sam Shepard, Sean Astin and Jason London. Directed by Robert Allan Ackerman from a screenplay by Deena Goldstone, it is based on the novel Safe Passage by Ellyn Bache.

Usage examples of "safe passage".

He knew as well as she that the two of them were not enough to cover the ship's safe passage through jump.

They cremated his body, tor he had died in the field, and Huy sacrificed for a safe passage of his soul to the sun.

Besides, I do not think Leia Organa Solo the type to break a promise of safe passage.

After this, the young margrave Villam moved his army against the city mentioned above, but the inhabitants now feared to stand against him and therefore they laid down their arms and asked for safe passage.

When this was completed, the bishop gave the entire assemblage his blessing, wished the ships crew a safe passage, and climbed down off the bales of cotton.

I told him I'd bring him this man, and in return, he offered me gold and safe passage.

But Nik Holdfast and his clan had paid well for safe passage for the pilgrims.

Minutes later they forded the Silver River at a shallows where a broad sandbar split the clear waters apart and rock shallows slowed the current enough to permit horse and rider safe passage.