单词 | electronic wallet |
释义 | > as lemmaselectronic wallet A device, application, or online service that can be used to make financial transactions electronically, and which may also store electronic forms of items such as receipts, tickets, and identity documents. Usually with modifying word, as electronic wallet, online wallet, virtual wallet, etc.digital wallet, mobile wallet: see the first element.Payments are made by drawing on funds which have been preloaded to the wallet, or by accessing stored details of a user's credit or debit card.In quot. 1982, describing a smart card (smart card n.) used for making small payments. ΚΠ 1982 Financial Times 12 Nov. 37/2 The basic patent [of the smart card] goes back to six years earlier, when a certain M Roland Moreno soldered a microcircuit to a bit of plastic with the idea of making a sort of electronic wallet from which amounts could be knocked off until it was empty. 1994 Bank Syst. & Technol. Mar. 6 Sauve referred to the scheme as an ‘electronic wallet’—a kind of cyber-bank in which tokens representing previously debited funds are moved around wherever the customer wants them within an electronic framework. 2002 What Mobile Apr. (Basics section) 23/1 A virtual wallet allows credit card and other personal details to be stored securely for speedy online shopping. 2015 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Jan. c1/3 This volunteer army has developed military-grade encryption to make bitcoin wallets more secure and insurable. 2018 New Yorker 22 Oct. 66/2 This is different from having your crypto[currency] stolen or hacked, when it's stored in an online ‘wallet.’ That happens all the time! < as lemmas |
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