CHARGE PLATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does charge plate mean? 

• CHARGE PLATE (noun)
  The noun CHARGE PLATE has 1 sense:

1. a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered

  Familiarity information: CHARGE PLATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARGE PLATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

charge card; charge plate; credit card; plastic

Context example:

do you take plastic?

Hypernyms ("charge plate" is a kind of...):

positive identification (evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance)

charge account credit; open-end credit; revolving credit (a consumer credit line that can be used up to a certain limit or paid down at any time)

Meronyms (parts of "charge plate"):

magnetic stripe (a short strip of magnetic tape attached to a credit card or debit card; it contains data that will tell a reading device who you are and what your account number is, etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "charge plate"):

bank card (a credit card issued by a bank)

calling card; phone card (a card that is used instead of cash to make telephone calls)

cash card; cashcard (a credit card that entitles the holder to receive cash)