"hall pass" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From hall + pass.",
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          "ref": "2018, Erica Catherman, Jonathan Catherman, The Girls' Guide to Conquering Middle School, Revell",
          "text": "To freely move around the school when you should be in class requires an official hall pass. Those are guarded like government-issued official travel documents. Most teachers don't just hand them out to anybody who asks.",
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        "A permit to be out of class during school hours."
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        "(US) A permit to be out of class during school hours."
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          "ref": "2011 February 24, Manohla Dargis, “Man-Child in the Promised Land, for a Whole (Pant! Pant!) Week”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "The story kicks in when a relationship guru (Joy Behar) suggests that the wives give their husbands a week off from marriage — a hall pass — which, after not much anguish, they do.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011 March 10, Peter Bradshaw, “Hall Pass – review”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "So these wives give them a \"hall pass\": for one week only, they get a bachelor holiday from married life, no questions asked.",
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          "ref": "2018 June 1, Holly O'Mahony, “‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding”, in The Sun",
          "text": "Shane explains: “I’ve got a hall pass to sleep with other women but that wasn’t the original intention.",
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        "An agreement to temporarily or conditionally relax monogamy in a relationship."
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        "(by extension, informal) An agreement to temporarily or conditionally relax monogamy in a relationship."
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  "etymology_text": "From hall + pass.",
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    {
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  "word": "hall pass"
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