Definitions

escape hatch

NOUN

back door

Synonyms

STRONGEST

side door

WEAK

back entrance back stairs back way indirect access means of entry postern postern door secret exit secretive or illicit method trap door trapdoor wormhole

NOUN

escape clause

Synonyms

WEAK

clause escalator clause escapeway fine print hole to creep out of loophole saving clause technicality way of escape way-out

NOUN

fire escape

Synonyms

WEAK

escapeway fire egress fire exit

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But Boucher is clear that his interest in Canada is not just about finding an escape hatch.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Finding “cross functional synergies” was, I always thought, the refuge of the insecure, a linguistic escape hatch to avoid responsibility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

While the mechanics may be complicated, the upshot for savers is clear—anyone worried about declining saving account rates now has an escape hatch.

From Barron's • Dec. 11, 2025

Throughout the novel, Rhys references Kant, De Beauvoir, Sartre, Virginia Woolf and Epictetus, among others, using knowledge as a balm and escape hatch.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

Their single fault, from where Yossarian sat as a bombardier, was the tight crawlway separating the bombardier’s compartment in the plexiglass nose from the nearest escape hatch.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

escape hatch

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