credit card

English

Credit cards

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛdɪt ˌkɑɹd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

credit card (plural credit cards)

2. (banking) A plastic card, usually with a magnetic strip or an embedded microchip, connected to a credit account and used to buy goods or services.

   Can you pay by credit card in that store? - Sure, actually I've used my credit card this very morning.

   • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

     Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. […] Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.

3. (informal) Any type of bank card.

Synonyms

• chargecard / charge card

Hypernyms

• card
• bank card
• payment card

Hyponyms

• affinity card

Coordinate terms

• bank card
• chip and PIN
• debit card

Derived terms

• credit card slot
• credit card tart
• credit card terminal
• do you accept credit cards
• uncredit card

Translations

card connected to a credit account used to buy goods or services

• Afrikaans: kredietkaart
• Albanian: kartë krediti f
• Amharic: ክሬዲት ካርድ (kəredit kard)
• Arabic: بِطَاقَةُ اِئْتِمَان f (biṭāqatu iʔtimān), بِطَاقَةُ تَسْلِيف f (biṭāqatu taslīf), كْرِدِت كَرْد m (kridit kard)
• Armenian: վարկային քարտ (hy) (varkayin kʻart)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܪܲܛ ܝܼܙܲܦܬܵܐ m (kraṭ īzaptā)
• Asturian: tarxeta de creitu f
• Azerbaijani: kredit kartı
• Basque: kreditu-txartel
• Belarusian: крэды́тная ка́ртка f (kredýtnaja kártka), крэды́тка f (kredýtka) (colloquial), ка́рта растэрміно́ўкі f (kárta rasterminówki)
• Bengali: ক্রেডিট কার্ড (bn) (kreḍiṭ karḍo)
• Bulgarian: кре́дитна ка́рта f (kréditna kárta)
• Burmese: အကြွေးဝယ်ကတ်ပြား (a.krwe:waikatpra:)
• Catalan: targeta de crèdit (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 信用卡 (seon³ jung⁶ kaat¹), 信用咭 (seon³ jung⁶ kaat¹)

  Hakka: 信用卡 (sin-yung-khá)

  Hokkien: 信用卡 (sìn-iōng-khah)

  Mandarin: 信用卡 (zh) (xìnyòngkǎ)

  Wu: 信用卡 (⁵shin-yon-ka)

• Czech: kreditní karta f
• Danish: kreditkort (da) n
• Dutch: creditcard (nl) m, kredietkaart (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: kreditkarto
• Estonian: krediitkaart (et)
• Finnish: luottokortti (fi)
• French: carte de crédit (fr) f
• Galician: tarxeta de crédito (gl) f, cartón de crédito m
• Georgian: საკრედიტო ბარათი (ka) (saḳrediṭo barati)
• German: Kreditkarte (de) f
• Greek: πιστωτική κάρτα (el) f (pistotikí kárta)
• Greenlandic: akiliut, akiliissut
• Gujarati: ધિરાણપત્ર (dhirāṇpatra)
• Hebrew: כַּרְטִיס אַשְׁרַאי (he) m (kartís ashráy)
• Hindi: क्रेडिट कार्ड m (kreḍiṭ kārḍ)
• Hungarian: hitelkártya (hu)
• Icelandic: kreditkort (is) n
• Indonesian: kartu kredit (id)
• Irish: cárta creidmheasa m
• Italian: carta di credito (it) f
• Japanese: クレジットカード (ja) (kurejitto kādo)
• Kazakh: несие картасы (nesie kartasy), несие карточкасы (nesie kartoçkasy)
• Khmer: ប័ណ្ណឥណទាន (pannaʼ ʼɨntiən)
• Korean: 신용 카드 (sinyong kadeu), 크레디트 카드 (keurediteu kadeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: karta krêdiyê

• Kyrgyz: кредиттик карт (kredittik kart), насыя картасы (nasıya kartası)
• Lao: ບັດເຄຣດິດ (lo) (bat khē dit)
• Latin: tessera crediticia f
• Latvian: kredītkarte f
• Lithuanian: kredito kortelė f
• Macedonian: кредитна картичка f (kreditna kartička)
• Malay: kad kredit
• Maori: kāri taurewa, kāri tāwere
• Mòcheno: kredit kòrt f
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: кредит карт (kredit kart), зээлийн карт (zeeliin kart), итгэлт карт (itgelt kart) (China)

• Norman: carte dé crédit f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kredittkort n, bankkort n

• Odia: କ୍ରେଡିଟ କାର୍ଡ଼ (kreḍiṭa kārṛa)
• Pashto: باور کارډ m (bāwar kārḍ)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کارْتِ اِعْتِباری (kârt-e e'tebâri), کِرِدیت کارْت (keredit kârt)

• Polish: karta kredytowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: cartão de crédito (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਕ੍ਰੈਡਿਟ ਕਾਰਡ (kraiḍiṭ kāraḍ)

• Romanian: carte de credit f
• Russian: креди́тная ка́рточка (ru) f (kredítnaja kártočka), креди́тная ка́рта f (kredítnaja kárta), креди́тка (ru) f (kredítka) (colloquial)
• Scottish Gaelic: cairt-iasaid f, cairt-creideis f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кредитна картица f, кредитна карта f

  Roman: kreditna kartica f, kreditna karta f

• Sinhalese: ක්‍රෙඩිට් කාඩ්පත (kreḍiṭ kāḍpata)
• Slovak: kreditná karta f
• Slovene: kreditna kartica f
• Spanish: tarjeta de crédito f
• Swahili: kadi ya mkopo
• Swedish: kreditkort (sv) n
• Tajik: корти кредитӣ (kort-i krediti)
• Tamil: கடன் அட்டை (kaṭaṉ aṭṭai)
• Tatar: кредит картасы (kredit qartası)
• Thai: บัตรเครดิต (th) (bàt-kree-dìt)
• Turkish: kredi kartı (tr)
• Turkmen: kredit kartoçka
• Ukrainian: креди́тна ка́ртка f (kredýtna kártka), кредито́ва ка́ртка f (kredytóva kártka), креди́тка f (kredýtka) (colloquial)
• Urdu: کِریڈِٹ کارْڈ m (kireḍiṭ kārḍ)
• Uyghur: كرېدىت كارتوچكىسى (krëdit kartochkisi), كرېدىت كارتىسى (krëdit kartisi), ئىناۋەتلىك كارتا (inawetlik karta)
• Uzbek: kredit kartasi
• Vietnamese: thẻ tín dụng
• Welsh: cerdyn credyd m
• Zhuang: gajsaenqyungh, sinyunggaj

Further reading

• credit card on Wikipedia.Wikipedia