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   card

   /kɑːd/

   noun

   • 1. a piece of thick, stiff paper or thin pasteboard, in particular one used for writing or printing on: "some notes jotted down on a card" Similar cardboardpasteboardboardstiff paper
   • ▪ a card printed with a picture and used to send a message or greeting: "a birthday card" Similar greetings cardpostcardChristmas cardbirthday cardgood luck cardget well cardsympathy card
   • ▪ a card with a person's name and other details printed on it for purposes of identification, for example a business card: "a membership card entitled you to library services" Similar identificationIDcredentialspapersID cardidentification cardvisiting cardbusiness cardcalling card
   • ▪ (in soccer and some other games) a yellow or red card shown by the referee to a player who is being cautioned or sent off: "the ref will have his cards at the ready to enforce the rule of law"
   • 2. a small rectangular piece of plastic containing personal data in a machine-readable form and used to obtain cash or credit or to pay for a phone call, gain entry to a room or building, etc.: "your card cannot be used to withdraw more than your daily limit from cash machines" Similar credit carddebit cardcash cardswipe cardinformal:plastic
   • 3. a playing card: "a pack of cards" Similar playing cardplain cardpicture cardtarot cardcourt cardface cardpack of cards
   • ▪ a game played with playing cards: "they were playing interminable cards"
   • 4. short for expansion card
   • 5. documents relating to an employee, especially for tax and national insurance, held by the employer. informal British
   • 6. a programme of events at a race meeting: "a nine-race card"
   • ▪ a record of scores in a sporting event; a scorecard.
   • 7. a person regarded as odd or amusing: informal, dated "He laughed: ‘You're a card, you know’"

   verb

   • 1. write (something) on a card, especially for indexing.
   • ▪ (in golf and other sports) score (a certain number of points on a scorecard): informal "he carded 68 in the final round"
   • ▪ (of the referee in soccer and some other games) show a yellow or red card to (a player who is being cautioned or sent off): "Reid, seconds after being carded, broke down the left wing"
   • 2. check the identity card of (someone), in particular as evidence of legal drinking age: North American "we were carded at the entrance to the club"
   • 3. (of an amateur athlete) be in receipt of government funding to pursue training: Canadian "in 1986–7 all carded athletes received a basic $450 monthly allowance"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in sense 3 of the noun): from Old French carte, from Latin carta, charta, from Greek khartēs ‘papyrus leaf’.

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