credit card
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈkrɛdɪt kɑrd/
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tarjeta de crédito
- I used my credit card to buy a new laptop online.
- credit card debt
- credit card numbers
- credit card bill
No no. No credit cards, no delivery system.
- No no. No credit cards, no delivery system.
- If you don't have a credit card yet, get a credit card.
- Ask and you could see your credit card annual fees gone.
- So just look into your credit card terms.
- Focus on one or two great credit cards, cash back travel.
- Jason, the credit card industry is quite opaque.
- Let's just say this person has been paying their credit cards, been paying their bills, right?
Examples
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Half of the respondents admit to not paying off their credit cards in full each month.
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Hey, hey, can we put the charge on your credit card? - Yeah.
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May or may not have left my credit card somewhere tonight.
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One of the girls finally used a credit card.
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I have a credit card.
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Are you carrying a credit card balance month after month?
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For instance, 55 percent of parents roll over credit card debt each month.
Academic text (2002) -
If you don't have a credit card yet, get a credit card.
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The next day he realizes that his credit card was stolen.
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Yes, I'm calling because my credit card has been compromised.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small rectangular piece of plastic or cardboard for showing identity and for paying
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2.3
A card from a bank people use to pay instead of cash
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1.4
A plastic card from a bank used to pay without cash and get money from cash machines
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3.2
A card that lets you buy things and must be paid in full each month
How Premium
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'credit card' is fully compositional: 'credit' (a financial lending/charge facility) combined with 'card' (a small payment/ID item) straightforwardly yields a card used to make purchases on credit. This noun+noun construction and its logic are cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'tarjeta de crédito'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Credit card comes from the simple idea that credit means trust that you will pay later, and a card is a small piece of metal or plastic that showed that trust. So a credit card is a small card that lets you 'buy now and pay later'.