identity card

noun

: id

Examples of identity card in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 At first, the state’s resident citizens should be those five million Palestinians now carrying PA identity cards and passports, but the state should eventually grant nationality without residency rights to Palestinian refugees worldwide, as an affirmation of identity. Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024 Since North Macedonia does not list ethnicity on birth certificates or identity cards, applicants merely have to self-identify as a member of the ethnic group for which a job is open, even if their true identity is clear from their name and or language. Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 15 May 2024 The company will spend up to a million dollars (which seems to be standard) on legal fees, notary fees, replacement identity cards, and the like. PCMAG, 30 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 7 Jul. 2024.

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