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card indexˈcard ˌindex noun [countable] British English  - For instance, he collects on his little card index all references in Wells to feeding, eating, and patent medicines.
- His job was to make a card index of suspect radicals - anyone who wrote or talked against government.
- Once inside they went to the card index.
- Telephone numbers can be kept separately, on a card index or in a contact book.
- The reports are indexed by subject and location as appropriate on a card index.
- This computerised index replaced a card index system that used to have to be updated by hand by bureaux staff.
- Within a file, information is organized in a number of records, rather like the cards in a card index.
a box of cards that contain information about something and are arranged in order, especially the cards with book information on them in a library SYN card catalog American English |