yellow card
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See also: yellow-card
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]yellow card (plural yellow cards)
- (sports) a yellow-coloured card, shown to a player (especially in association football) as a caution that he or she has committed a flagrant foul; a further such foul would result in a red card.
- (medicine) one of various yellow-colored cards used to verify the healthiness, vaccination status or other medical info of travelers.
- (medicine, UK) a form to record safety concerns and adverse reactions to medicinal drugs.
- (often attributive) A card sent out by a travelling dance or theatre company to request temporary personnel from a local labor union.
- 1991, M. Kay Barrell, The technical production handbook:
- Some large modern dance companies, most large ballet companies, and most large theater companies also require union crews. These are called yellow card companies.
- 2014, John Ramsey Holloway, Illustrated Theatre Production Guide, page 6:
- Each local union has a separate number; New York was the first so they are Local One. Chicago is Local Two. A yellow card (they have been printed on yellow cardstock since time began) is sent out telling how many hands will be required in in each department for the load-in, load-out, and for the run of the show.
- (historical) A yellow ticket.
- (historical) a card given to British Army personnel during The Troubles .
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A referee giving a yellow card.
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A yellow card.
Further reading
[edit]- “yellow card, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2021; “yellow card, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.