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  • noun A chargecard used to pay for telephone calls.

Etymologies

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phone card

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Examples

  • They supplied the kit, the manager gave me food and lodgings, and I had a phonecard to call my family.

    Sandro: 'I told my brother: I'll be the player we should both have been' 2011

  • Clearly, the "at home" option is likely to be closed to her at Lynwood, though Paris did manage to use her phonecard to conduct an exclusive telephone interview with TV's Barbara Walters, in which she explained that being behind bars was "like living in a cage".

    Lindsay Lohan's prison sentence is an outrage 2010

  • Researchers advise those keen to avoid nomophobia to keep their credit topped up, carry a charger at all times, give family and friends an alternative contact number and carry a pre-paid phonecard to make emergency calls if your mobile is broken, lost or stolen.

    No Mobile Phobia 2008

  • Researchers advise those keen to avoid nomophobia to keep their credit topped up, carry a charger at all times, give family and friends an alternative contact number and carry a pre-paid phonecard to make emergency calls if your mobile is broken, lost or stolen.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • On the topic of KCB, when I went to S'pore last year, I bought a phonecard that had Big B on it, advertising KCB.

    Black Eyed Peas Burgers - KBC & SRK 2007

  • I then realized that the Prepaid phonecard I use and have recharged, so my name is now tied to it is from AT&T.

    Firedoglake » Question of the Day 2006

  • I don't know what Caleb is up to, but he's not online and I don't have a phonecard so I'm not likely to find out, sadly.

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2004

  • What I don't like about the Snopes posting is that they make it seem as if the phonecard thing was unwarranted.

    Archive 2004-12-01 2004

  • He'd stop at a twenty-four-hour garage and get change, or a phonecard if they were selling them.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • Morroco's protest will attack the economic policies of the industrialised world towards the poor and in Athens the national telecoms firm will be targeted for having allowed an anti-abortion group to sponsor a phonecard.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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