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Business card   /bˈɪznəs kɑrd/   Listen
noun
Card  n.  
1.
A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. "Our first cards were to Carabas House."
2.
A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
3.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. "All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card."
4.
(Weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
5.
An indicator card. See under Indicator.
Business card, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address.
Card basket
(a)
A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers.
(b)
A basket made of cardboard.
Card catalogue. See Catalogue.
Card rack, a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card.
Card table, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over.
On the cards, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme.
Playing card, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards.
To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking.
To play one's cards well, to make no errors; to act shrewdly.
To play snow one's cards, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes.
To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card.
Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.





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"Business card" Quotes from Famous Books



... it might deprive me of this interview, I should have sent in my business card at ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... admitting 'rickshaw coolies, sailors, and harbor riffraff. The gilded establishment claiming attention from travelers is conducted by a couple of Chinese worthies, by name Ung Hang and Hung Vo, according to the business card deferentially handed you at your hotel, and the signs in front of it and the legends painted on great lanterns proclaim it as a first-chop Casa de Jogo, and a gambling-house that is "No. 1" in all respects. The gamesters whose garments proclaim them to ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield
... meditatively watched the visitors come and go, but saw no sign of his quarry. Then he arose, put on his hat and hunted out a stationery store where for two cents he bought a bright-red envelope. He then visited a ticket-scalper's office, secured the owner's business card and wrote a note on its back to Dodge offering him cheap transportation to any point that he might desire. Armed with this he returned to the hotel, walked to the desk, glanced casually over a number of telegrams exposed in a rack and, when the clerk turned his back, placed the note, ...
— True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office • Arthur Train
... only signed his name and given his address carefully in hopes of a reply, but he had enclosed the business card of his firm as a token of his responsibility. The partner in a wholesale stationery house ought to be an impressive figure in the imagination of a village girl; but it was some weeks before any answer came to Langbourne's letter. The ...
— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells
... things we want, we get out of that hat... And you know, sir, if you'll excuse my saying it, there isn't a wholesale shop, not for Genuine Magic goods, sir. I don't know if you noticed our inscription—the Genuine Magic Shop." He drew a business card from his cheek and handed it to me. "Genuine," he said, with his finger on the word, and added, "There is absolutely no ...
— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells


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