"affinity card" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: affinity cards [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} affinity card (plural affinity cards)
  1. (finance) A credit card made available by a bank or other lender to qualified people associated with a sponsoring organization (such as a club, educational institution, charity, or business), typically with provision for a portion of the lender's interest income to be paid to the sponsor and sometimes providing special benefits (such as reduced fees) for the users. Categories (topical): Finance Hypernyms: credit card Translations (credit card): 認同卡 (Chinese Mandarin), 认同卡 (rèntóngkǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), jäsenyyteen perustuva luottokortti (english: there's no fixed term, but this phrase will be understood correctly) (Finnish), carte affinitaire [feminine] (French)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1987 November 29, Diane Cole, “What's New in Fund-Raising: Using Plastic to Rev Up Revenues”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-10-29:",
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        "(finance) A credit card made available by a bank or other lender to qualified people associated with a sponsoring organization (such as a club, educational institution, charity, or business), typically with provision for a portion of the lender's interest income to be paid to the sponsor and sometimes providing special benefits (such as reduced fees) for the users."
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          "sense": "credit card",
          "word": "認同卡"
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      "sense": "credit card",
      "word": "認同卡"
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