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credit_card

credit card

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Credit cards

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credit card (plural credit cards)

  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.
    • 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”.

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