smart card

American  

noun

1. a small plastic card embedded with a memory chip and often a microprocessor, used for financial transactions, identification, as a key, etc.

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smart card British  

noun

1. Also called: laser card, intelligent card. a plastic card with integrated circuits used for storing and processing computer data

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Etymology

Origin of smart card

First recorded in 1980–85

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Example Sentences

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smart card

You need a smart card with your data on it to get your subsidised bread or allocation of fuel or gas - a text tells you when it's time to join the queue.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024

Never mind that in the age of the Oyster smart card, diminishing numbers of paper tickets were being sold.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2015

Even now, government officials tasked with implementing it worry whether the new smart card system is air-tight enough to squeeze out middlemen working the black market.

From Reuters ● Jan. 12, 2015

Security experts are cheering Apple’s move to NFC because it incorporates the chip-based smart card standard known as EMV—for Europay-Mastercard-Visa—the companies that first backed the technology.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2014

Another fast developing solution is the smart card.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

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