An identity card is a card with a person's name, photograph, date of birth, and other information on it. In some countries, people are required to carry identity cards in order to prove who they are.
identity card in British English
noun
a card that establishes a person's identity, esp one issued to all members of the population in wartime, to the staff of an organization, etc
Examples of 'identity card' in a sentence
identity card
They were forced to carry yellow identity cards and suffered harsh discrimination.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The residents of the zone were required to wear an ankle tag and carry an identity card at all times.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A loudspeaker broadcast a name when an identity card was found.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Remember, all bona fide utility employees carry identity cards which should be checked before you let them in.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Ambitious schemes such as identity cards show the government has not lost its taste for big IT programmes.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
As well as helping to encourage immigration for temporary work, in 1917 the government for the first time began to require foreigners to carry identity cards.
Ogden, Philip E & White, Paul E (eds.) Migrants in Modern France: Population Mobility in the Later Nineteenth and TwentiethCenturies (1989)
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identity card
British English: identity card /aɪˈdɛntɪtɪ kɑːd/ NOUN
An identity card is a card with a person's name, photograph, date of birth, and other information about them on it.