green card

1. 1.

   a card that identifies the bearer as an alien with permanent resident status in the United States

   “he was surprised to discover that green cards are no longer green”

   Broaderpositive identification

Questions about green card

What does green card mean?

green card means "a card that identifies the bearer as an alien with permanent resident status in the United States".

Is green card a common word?

green 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.