A card issued by an organization authorizing a named person to draw on its account or to make purchases on credit. Cf. charge card n. at charge, n.…

(a) a card made from or laminated with plastic; (b) spec. an electronically readable bank card, (now) esp. a credit card; cf. A. 3c.

a cheque card, credit card, debit card, or cashpoint card issued by a bank; cf. banker's card n. at banker, n.2 compounds.

A card (sense 6a) issued by an organization authorizing a named person to draw on its account or to make purchases on credit; (in later use) spec. a…

= bank card n. at bank, n.3 compounds 3.

The name of a combined cheque guarantee card and credit card issued by Barclays Bank.

plastic credit cards, etc., considered as a form of money; cf. sense A. 4b.

colloquial. A credit card, debit card, or similar; such cards collectively. Cf. plastic money n. at compounds 2b.

Chiefly Australian. A plastic card on which data is encoded or embedded by means of a microchip, magnetic strip, etc., and which provides access to…