escape hatch

noun

1

: a hatch providing an emergency exit from an enclosed space

2

: a means of evading a difficulty, dilemma, or responsibility

Examples of escape hatch in a Sentence

the escape hatch of a submarine

Recent Examples on the Web

Its other rivals, Microsoft, Amazon and Google, have created an escape hatch for themselves, renting that infrastructure to outside customers through enormous cloud businesses. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 30 July 2026

The bottom-right is the escape hatch, home to bespoke services a model cannot reproduce on its own, where the client still needs a human owning the loop or relies on forms of engagement only the app or platform can offer. — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

With that legal escape hatch now closed, markets may need to start pricing tariffs as a structural drag on global growth rather than a transient risk to be negotiated away. — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 27 July 2026

Oil prices are rising after the United States conducted an 11th consecutive night of strikes on Iranian military targets and Houthi rebels in Yemen threatened to disrupt a crucial escape hatch for Saudi Arabia’s oil exports. — Arpita Dasika, CNN Money, 22 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for escape hatch

• attach
• bycatch
• despatch
• detach
• dispatch
• mismatch
• nuthatch
• potlatch
• bache
• batch
• brach
• catch