safe house
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This word may also be spelled “safehouse.”
safe house(
seyf
haus
)A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
1. (general)
a. la casa de seguridad (F)
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
The police took the children to a temporary safe house.La policía llevó a los niños a una casa de seguridad temporal.
b. el piso franco (M) (Spain)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
Regionalism used in Spain
This is the safe house where the drug traffickers were hiding for two years.Este es el piso franco donde los narcotraficantes se escondieron durante dos años.
c. el enterradero (M) (River Plate)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
The kingpin of the criminal operation is moved to a different safe house every week.El cerebro de la operación criminal es trasladado a un enterradero distinto cada semana.
d. el refugio (M)
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
For security reasons, we don't share the location of the safe house for battered women.Por razones de seguridad, no compartimos la ubicación del refugio para mujeres maltratadas.
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