cards

/ (kɑːdz) /


noun
  1. (usually functioning as singular)

    • any game or games played with cards, esp playing cards

    • the playing of such a game

  2. an employee's national insurance and other documents held by the employer

  1. get one's cards to be told to leave one's employment

  2. on the cards possible or likely: US equivalent: in the cards

  3. play one's cards to carry out one's plans; take action (esp in the phrase play one's cards right)

  4. put one's cards on the table, lay one's cards on the table or show one's cards to declare one's intentions, resources, etc

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How to use cards in a sentence

  • He invites various players to make the cards; this is done in rather a perfunctory manner.

  • Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.

  • But "the cards never forgive," and as a rule Dame Fortune is relentless to the reckless player.

  • They were walking down a corridor, and Miss Thangue was peering through her lorgnette at the cards on the doors.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • The Professor put down his cards without a word, and left the room, going straight upstairs.

    Uncanny Tales | Various