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credit card (plural credit cards)

1. (banking) A plastic card, usually with a magnetic strip or an embedded microchip, connected to a credit account and used to buy goods or services.

   Can you pay by credit card in that store? - Sure, actually I've used my credit card this very morning.

   • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

     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”.

2. (informal) Any type of bank card.

• chargecard / charge card

• card
• bank card
• payment card

• affinity card

• bank card
• chip and PIN
• debit card

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