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card

noun

1 paste it on a piece of stiff card:

cardboard, pasteboard, board, stiff paper.

2 I'll send her some flowers and a card:

greetings card, postcard, Christmas card, birthday card, good luck card, get well card, sympathy card.

3 she dug into her bag and produced her card:

identification, ID, credentials, papers;

ID card, identification card, visiting card, business card, calling card.

4 she paid for the goods with her card:

credit card, debit card, cash card, swipe card;

informal plastic.

5 the cards were dealt for the last hand:

playing card;

plain card, picture card, tarot card;

British court card;

North American face card;

(cards) pack of cards.

□ give someone their cards

British, informal

the firm has just given 74,000 workers their cards:

dismiss, give someone their notice, throw out, get rid of, lay off, let someone go, discharge, cashier;

British make redundant;

informal sack, give someone the sack, fire, kick out, boot out, give someone the boot, give someone their marching orders, give someone the bullet, give someone the (old) heave-ho, give someone the push, show someone the door, send packing;

British, informal give someone the elbow, turf out;

dated out.

▷antonyms employ, take on.

□ on the cards

informal

a decisive victory was on the cards:

likely, possible, probable, expected, liable to happen, in the wind, in the air, in the offing, on the horizon, in view, in prospect, in store, to come.

▷antonyms unlikely, out of the question.