credit card

Definition

A plastic card, usually with a magnetic strip or an embedded microchip, connected to a credit account and used to buy goods or services.

Example Sentences

• "Can you pay by credit card in that store? - Sure, actually I've used my credit card this very morning."
• "Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”."