Definition of "pass for"

pass for

verb
third-person singular simple present passes for, present participle passing for, simple past and past participle passed for
1. (transitive) To be mistakenly seen as something that one is not
  Quotations
  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 5 December 2012
2. (transitive) To be sufficient, especially minimally so, for a specified purpose.