A swipe card is a plastic card with a magnetic strip on it which contains information that can be read or transferred by passing the card through a special machine.
They use a swipe card to go in and out of their offices.
swipe card in British English
noun
a credit card, identity card, etc, with a magnetic strip that holds encoded information that can be electronically interpreted as it is passed through the slot of a machine designed to read it
Examples of 'swipe card' in a sentence
swipe card
Entry to it was controlled by a swipe card but there was an access panel on the wall to the right.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
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swipe card
British English: swipe card NOUN
A swipe card is a plastic card with a magnetic strip on it which contains information that can be read or transferred by passing the card through a special machine.
They use a swipe card to go in and out of their offices.