electronic benefits transfer
(also electronic benefit transfer) originally US
noun
The electronic delivery of credit to a recipient of government benefits (especially food stamps), usually via a payment card with which the recipient may make purchases.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in Supermarket News.
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