charge card

1. 1.

   a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered

   “do you take plastic?”

   Synonymscredit cardcharge plateplastic

   Broaderopen-end creditpositive identification

   Narrowerbank cardcalling cardcash card

   Partsmagnetic stripe

Questions about charge card

What does charge card mean?

charge card means "a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered".

What is another word for charge card?

Close synonyms include credit card, charge plate, plastic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is charge card a common word?

charge card is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.