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cheque card

cheque card noun: a small plastic card issued by a bank or similar which is a guarantee of payment of cheques written by the cardholder (up to a specified maximum amount).

Noun

cheque card (plural cheque cards)

  1. (UK) A small plastic card issued by a bank or similar which is a guarantee of payment of cheques written by the cardholder (up to a specified maximum amount).
    • Banks have decided to end cheque guarantee card payments from July 2011. / The 24 members of the current cheque card system said that they had made the move in order to reflect consumer trends, with the popularity of the payment method in "terminal decline".2009 September 25, “Industry to close cheque card system”, in CompareAndSave.com
  2. (South Africa) A card issued by a bank or similar which behaves like a credit card but is in fact a type of debit card.

Forms of cheque card

pluralcheque cards

Questions about cheque card

What does cheque card mean?
Cheque card means a small plastic card issued by a bank or similar which is a guarantee of payment of cheques written by the cardholder (up to a specified maximum amount).
What part of speech is cheque card?
Cheque card is a noun.
What is the plural of cheque card?
The plural of cheque card is cheque cards.

Words near cheque card in the dictionary

  1. Cheptegei
  2. chequable
  3. cheque
  4. cheque book
  5. cheque books
  6. cheque card
  7. cheque cards
  8. cheque, please
  9. chequebook
  10. chequebook diplomacies
  11. chequebook diplomacy

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