landing card
Americannoun
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an identification card issued to a traveler for presentation to the immigration authorities.
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a card issued to a sailor in a foreign port granting permission to go ashore.
Etymology
Origin of landing card
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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At the airport, a Polisario representative handed me a landing card, in Arabic, Spanish, and English, welcoming me to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2018
"When I would fly in from Europe," he recalls, "it was embarrassing for me to put 'actor' on my landing card."
From Time Magazine Archive
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