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green card, n.
[f. green a. + card n.]
1. U.K. Pol. A card filled in by a visitor to Westminster Palace (esp. a constituent) requesting an interview with a Member of Parliament.
1930B. H. Fell Palace of Westminster 33 The Central Hall..is the place where visitors and constituents, coming to see members of Parliament, fill in their names on green cards, send them in to members and await their arrival. 1946A. P. Herbert Big Ben ii. i. 59 Down left a small table and seat, where Henry sits rather broody, fingering a ‘Green Card’ (i.e. from Parliament). 1974Parliamentarian LV. 162/2 The Serjeant [at Arms] is once again able to ensure that, within the limitations of space and order, entrance is ‘denied to none’ who may wish, on a normal day, either to report its proceedings..or to be present as a member of the public in the gallery, or to send in from Central Lobby a ‘Green Card’ to a Member. 1987E. Stones House of Commons: Gen. Information (Educ. Sheet 4) 12 It is..possible for constituents to meet their MP at the House of Commons. Anyone can go to the Central Lobby and fill in a green card which will then be taken round the building by a Doorkeeper.
2. (Formerly at green a. 13 a.) An international insurance document recommended, and in some countries obligatory, for motorists taking their cars abroad, which confirms that a driver holds at least the minimum motor insurance cover required by the country visited.
1959Motor Man. (ed. 36) xi. 263 The motorist must get from his insurers a ‘Green Card’, which confirms that he has Third Party insurance cover. 1969J. Leasor Week of Love v. 90 I've owned the car outside for years. I've all the papers... Green card. Log book. 1975Guardian 27 Jan. 7/5 Setting out with your Green Card and your Routier Guide to storm the Alpine passes. 1991Business Traveller Jan. 81/4 Special features include: free Green Cards for foreign motoring.
3. A permit issued by the U.S. Government, enabling a foreign national to live and work permanently in the United States (see quot. 1977).
1969New Yorker 21 June 50/3 The man had just come in from Mexico on a ‘green card’, or visa. 1973Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 16 Feb. 13/2 The principal target for the ‘wet-back’ is the I-151 ‘Green Card’ which gives him the right to work in the U.S. A counterfeit ‘Green Card’ currently changes hands for $400 to $500. 1977New Yorker 29 Aug. 72/2 Most of them aspired to the ‘green card’—the popular name for the alien-registration-receipt card, which shows its holder to be a ‘permanent resident’, eligible to apply for naturalization after five years of residence. 1988S. Bellow Theft 93 ‘And you'd like to find her a job?’ ‘That wouldn't be easy. She has a student visa, not a green card.’
Hence green ˈcarder n. U.S., a foreign national who holds a green card (sense *3 above).
1969New Yorker 21 June 55/2 ‘Green-carders’ can become citizens after five years of residence—and pay taxes, be drafted, and qualify for Social Security while they wait. 1983Neaman & Silver Dict. Euphemisms 265 A Cuban or Frenchman is a foreign national or United States non-national, and one who has a U.S. work permit is a green carder. |