identity card

noun

: id

Examples of identity card in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Every citizen, at the age of five, is given an identity card. D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024 Expired passports and identity cards will now also be accepted as travel documents to facilitate repatriation. Sophie Tanno, CNN, 14 Sep. 2024 Nilekani led India’s Aadhaar program, the world’s largest biometric identity card program. Garrison Lovely, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024 Within 30 minutes of the crash, roadblocks had been set up around the city to check identity cards (which listed people's ethnicity), and to kill those of Tutsi ethnicity on the spot. The Week Uk, theweek, 21 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for identity card 

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Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of identity card was in 1900

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“Identity card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/identity%20card. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.

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