pass for

verb — 2 senses

pass for

verb

1

To be mistakenly seen as something that one is not

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.2006, The New Yorker, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2012:

2

To be sufficient, especially minimally so, for a specified purpose.

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