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

Plausible deniability is the escape hatch for all the foolishness. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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

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