Complete Definition of "pass for"

English

Verb
to pass for

#transitive To be mistakenly seen as something that one is not
#*: 2006 The New Yorker When I visited the offices in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge.

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