gift card

noun

: a card entitling the recipient to receive goods or services of a specified value from the issuer

Examples of gift card in a Sentence

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Don’t bet your Lou Malnati’s Deep Dish gift card on it. Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025 The only thing to note is that right now the company is not accepting gift cards online. 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. Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025 Attendees were entered in a raffle for backpacks, laptop computers and gas and gift cards. Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for gift card 

Word History

First Known Use

1990, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gift card was in 1990

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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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