Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cheque card

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English

Syllables: cheque -card
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small plastic card issued by a bank or similar which is a guarantee of payment of cheques written by the cardholder (up to a specified maximum amount).

British usage

noun

A card issued by a bank or similar which behaves like a credit card but is in fact a type of debit card.

Example Sentences

"Banks have decided to end cheque guarantee card payments from July 2011. / The 24 members of the current cheque card system said that they had made the move in order to reflect consumer trends, with the popularity of the payment method in "terminal decline"."

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

cheque cards (plural)

Phrases

debit card

Frequently Paired Words

debit card

Questions

What does cheque card mean?: A small plastic card issued by a bank or similar which is a guarantee of payment of cheques written by the cardholder (up to a specified maximum amount).

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