credit card

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”.”

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