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Amex

11 3.4
A short name for the American Express card or the company that issues it
  • noun
  • /ˈeɪˌmɛks/
: Amex
  • At the restaurant, he pulled out his Amex to settle the bill after dinner.
  • Amex card
  • Amex Platinum
  • Amex bill

And then like I've had an Amex Blue Cash for like over a decade.

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Examples

  • I would say Amex has better international transfer partners and Chase probably has better domestic transfer partners.

  • We both have the same high limits on our cards, including our Amex Centurion card.

  • And so you walk in, they hand me a no limit Amex card, corporate card.

  • Did you call Amex and schedule my call?

  • I'll just take out my AmEx and you pick what stuff you think's good.

  • I had two million points left on my Amex.

  • Put it on my AmEx.

  • I'll pay for the ticket with my Amex card.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Thank goodness I have AmEx; they were able to get the money back.

    Blog text (14)
  • Lisa had already checked in and used her AMEX card.

    Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

credit card
vsAmex
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A small plastic card from a bank that lets you buy things now and pay later

refers specifically to one company's branded payment product rather than the general type

Surface Forms

Amex singular
Amexes plural

Morphology

Amex = American + express (opaque) = American + Express

The word is a commercial shortening of 'American Express', but the abbreviation does not transparently encode the meanings of the source words.

Etymology

The word Amex is a short form of American Express, the company from the United States that issues the credit card. The express part means 'fast', so thinking of Amex as a quick, trusted way to pay helps you remember what the name stands for.