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Meaning of credit card | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈkɹɛdɪt ˌkɑɹd/

Definitions

  1. A plastic card, usually with a magnetic strip or an embedded microchip, connected to a credit account and used to buy goods or services.
  2. Any type of bank card.
    informal

Equivalents

Examples

“Can you pay by credit card in that store? - Sure, actually I've used my credit card this very morning.”
“Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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