passkey
Noun
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Noun
passkey (plural passkeys)
- A key, especially in a hotel, that allows someone in authority to open any door.
- Synonyms: master key, passe-partout
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 23:
- Jourdain stood by with a quiet sad smile, holding his passkey in his hand, and giving me time to take it all in.
- A key for entering a house.
- 1917, Hearst's (volume 32, page 293)
- Now, Balmy, here's the passkey to that house. The windows are wired, but the front door isn't. Get inside that door as quietly as you can, and find out as much as you can.
- 1917, Hearst's (volume 32, page 293)
- (computing) A password.
- 2007, Harold F Tipton, Micki Krause, Information Security Management Handbook
- The router then generates a random numeric passkey and delivers it to the user […]
- 2007, Harold F Tipton, Micki Krause, Information Security Management Handbook
- French: passe-partout, passepartout, passe
- Russian: отмы́чка
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