Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being an enrolled member of a particular organization.
- adjective Avidly devoted to a group or cause.
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- adjective
Enrolled as amember of anorganization , and having a card to prove it; used especially to signifyloyal dedication to that organization or thecause it supports. - adjective by extension Loyal and
dedicated to some cause.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Once the samples are in the lab, researchers have a suite of techniques at their disposal to hunt around for microbe DNA, and specifically for 16S rRNA, a gene that Colwell called "card-carrying evidence that you are alive."
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As for libertarianism, I need to brush up, but I would hope that any card-carrying libertarian would be outraged when people are judged strictly according to their age.
Against Adolescence, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As a card-carrying member of "the professional left," I've had my share of disappointments over the past two years.
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As a card-carrying member of "the professional left," I've had my share of disappointments over the past two years.
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Despite all the young blood, some of the night's best moments were delivered by card-carrying AARP members -- one-time Oscar fixture Billy Crystal, a CGI clip of Bob Hope and a deliciously feisty Kirk Douglas, who basically stole the show.
Kirk Douglas: The highlight of the 'young, hip' Oscar broadcast 2011
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I could easily become a card-carrying party cell secretary, and in my case I dont even need a Chinese passport since as a Jew, I am considered to belong to an overseas Chinese minority.
Juntas vs. Open Societies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A card-carrying cold warrior, he secretly sold weapons to Iran and Iraq, illegally funded the Nicaraguan Contras, provided aid to a Guatemalan army later accused by a UN-backed truth commission of carrying out "acts of genocide", and supported Osama bin Laden's mujahideen in Afghanistan, and Jonas Savimbi's Unita in Angola.
Ronald Reagan was no hawk – and certainly no neocon | Mehdi Hasan 2011
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Blockbuster failed to leverage their traffic, thousands of stores, or loyal card-carrying customers.
Blockbuster Beyond The Grave George Anderson 2010
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But it was picked up by radio host, former Seattelite, and friend John Moe (@johnmoe), who followed my efforts with his more professionally humorous entries (he is a card-carrying humor professional, after all):
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But he said he longs for his life before the fall of Saddam Hussein, when he would import fine fabrics from London's Wembley Market and was a card-carrying member of Baghdad's chamber of commerce.
Iraqis still reliant on power generators as U.S. prepares to leave Janine Zacharia 2010
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