identity card

Examples

• All

• I was stopped at a checkpoint, and they said, "show us your identity card."

  Academic text (2009)

• The bus was stopped at the outskirts of Baghdad, and all identity cards were checked.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Your registration book and identity card, please.

  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

• Let's see your identity card.

  Sorcerer (1977)

• Do they have identity cards that allow them to be counted as citizens?

  Academic text (2010)

• Women were carrying their identity cards in one hand and bags of fresh bread in the other.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Any Kashmiri caught on the street without an identity card is in serious trouble.

  Academic text (2009)

• What's needed for proper surveillance is a compulsory identity card that everyone must have.

  Blog text (32)

• They're being issued identity cards, and the call comes, evacuation officers meet them at pre-arranged departure areas.

  Thirteen Days (2000)

• Can I see your identity card?

Synonyms

C

credential

vsidentity card

165 5.3

An official paper that shows a person's identity or qualifications

is limited to a government card used mainly to prove who someone is

I

identification

vsidentity card

135 2.9

A card or paper that shows who someone is

is a single official card rather than any form of supporting evidence

P

positive identification

vsidentity card

• Formal

8 4.8

Clear proof that a person is who they say they are

is the regular authority-issued card rather than a legal confirmation process

P

proof of identity

vsidentity card

• Formal

1 2.7

A document that shows who you are, like a passport or driver's licence

is the specific government card used as one form of that confirmation

I

I.D.

vsidentity card

3.0

A card like a badge that shows who you are and proves your age or job

is issued by authorities as the formal government proof of who someone is

I

ident

vsidentity card

• UK

7.9

A badge worn to show who a person is in a workplace

is a government-issued card used as official proof rather than a worn badge

How Official

passport

• Formal

325 1.3

identity card

• Formal

6 1.3

proof of identity

• Formal

1 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology