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gift card
noun
: a card entitling the recipient to receive goods or services of a specified value from the issuer
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Don’t bet your Lou Malnati’s Deep Dish gift card on it.
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Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
The only thing to note is that right now the company is not accepting gift cards online.
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Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2025
Over the course of the next four months, the Manheim, Pennsylvania woman would drain her savings and retirement funds to send Tony and his kids $39,000 in gift cards and cryptocurrency.
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Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
Attendees were entered in a raffle for backpacks, laptop computers and gas and gift cards.
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Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
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Word History
First Known Use
1990, in the meaning defined above
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“Gift card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gift%20card. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
gift card
noun
: a card that is worth a certain amount of money and that is given to someone to buy something (as goods or services from a business)
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