cardnoun
uk/kɑːd/us/kɑːrd/card noun (PERMISSION)
B1 [ C ] a small, rectangular piece of card or plastic, often with your signature, photograph, or other information proving who you are, that allows you to do something, such as make a payment, get money from a bank, or enter a particular place:
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- This credit card allows you to withdraw up to £200 a day from cash dispensers.
- Unfortunately, I didn't have my credit card with me or I'd certainly have bought it.
- Put your plastic card in the slot, and the machine will read it and identify who you are.
- Entry to the club is only permitted on production of a membership card.
- The introduction of identity cards has been opposed by the campaign for civil liberties.
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Payment methods
- ATM card
- baksheesh
- bank card
- bill
- blank cheque
- cash
- cash card
- cashpoint card
- certified cheque
- direct debit
- giro
- gratuity
- hush money
- per annum
- piece
- small change
- standing order
- sweetener
- traveller's cheque
- voucher
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card noun (GAME)
A2 [ C ] also playing card one of a set of 52 small rectangular pieces of stiff paper each with a number and one of four signs printed on it, used in games:
any of a range of games played with cards, such as poker, whist, and bridge:
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- We played cards all evening.
- I bought a new pack of cards.
- I had really good cards in my hand.
- I dealt the cards to all the players.
- She laid all her cards face up on the table.
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- deal
- dealer
- diamond
- discard
- flush
- grand slam
- jack
- joker
- pool
- royal flush
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- solitaire
- stick
- strip poker
- suit
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card noun (GREETINGS)
A2 [ C ] a rectangular piece of stiff paper, folded in half, with a picture on the front and often a message printed inside, sent on a special occasion:
[ C ] a postcard
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- I've circulated a good luck card for everyone to sign.
- He's so cheap he didn't even buy me a card for my birthday.
- I wonder who this card is from.
- Even if she didn't want to send a present, she could at least have sent a card.
- I had posted the card two months previously.
card noun (INFORMATION)
B1 [ C ] a small, rectangular piece of stiff paper with information printed on it, especially a person's job title, business address, and phone number:
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- She handed me a business card with her name neatly embossed on it.
- He has all his friends' names and addresses on a card index.
card noun (STIFF PAPER)
[ C or U ] (a piece of) thick stiff paper
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Publishing: paper & stationery
- A3
- A5
- acid-free
- assembler
- ballpoint pen
- grammage
- graph paper
- headed notepaper
- highlighter
- jotter
- keypad
- pencil
- qwerty
- ream
- rice paper
- rough paper
- scrap paper
- slate
- tissue
- watermark
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card noun (COMPUTER)
B1 [ C ] a thin plate inside a computer that contains very small electronic circuits and controls certain operations of the computer:
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Computer hardware
- 3-D printer
- blackberry
- brick
- bubblejet
- codec
- handheld
- joypad
- Macintosh
- micro
- microcomputer
- motherboard
- mouse
- ram
- shift key
- tablet
- toggle
- trackball
- underscore
- VDT
- word processor
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card noun (PERSON)
[ C ] old-fashioned informal a funny or strange person:
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Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people
- alien
- anomaly
- Dalek
- deviant
- dwarf
- fairy
- Frankenstein
- Martian
- monster
- mutant
- oddball
- oddity
- perv
- quirk
- screwball
- time traveller
- twilight
- twilight zone idiom
- wacko
- weirdo
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Idiom(s)
cardverb [ T ]
uk/kɑːd/us/kɑːrd/USto ask someone to show you a document, especially an identity card, in order to prove how old they are
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Questioning people & asking questions in general
- beat
- bombard
- canvass
- cross-question
- debrief
- desk research
- enquiry
- feel sb/sth out
- grilling
- interrogate
- interview
- interviewee
- opinion poll
- pin
- Q, q
- questioner
- questioning
- roll
- what do you have to say for yourself? idiom
- worm
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