"blue card" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: EN-AU ck1 blue card.ogg Forms: blue cards [plural]
Etymology: The term has been inspired by the United States' green card, blue making reference to the main colour of the EU flag. Head templates: {{en-noun}} blue card (plural blue cards)
  1. p. 2009, An EU-wide work permit allowing high-skilled non-EU citizens to work and live in any country within the European Union, excluding Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom, which are not subject to the proposal. Translations (European work permit): targeta blava [feminine] (Catalan), 藍卡 (Chinese Mandarin), 蓝卡 (lánkǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), sininen kortti (Finnish), carte bleue [feminine] (French), blaue Karte [feminine] (German), ブルーカード (burūkādo) (Japanese), голуба́я ка́рта (golubája kárta) [feminine] (Russian), си́няя ка́рта (sínjaja kárta) [feminine] (Russian), блюка́рд (bljukárd) [feminine] (Russian), блюка́рта (bljukárta) [feminine] (Russian), blåkort [neuter] (Swedish), blått kort [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-blue_card-en-noun-Abj~5i0K Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 20 33 35 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 20 31 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 21 32 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 20 21 32 27 Disambiguation of 'European work permit': 88 5 3 4
  2. (Australia) (Queensland only) An identity card issued with police approval, stating that the person is of suitable character to work near children and young adults. Tags: Australia
    Sense id: en-blue_card-en-noun-rc4NmF0m Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 20 33 35 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 20 31 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 21 32 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 20 21 32 27
  3. (scouting, US) An application for pursuing a certain merit badge, which must be signed by a Scout's unit leader and their merit badge counselor before pursuing. Tags: US Categories (topical): Scouting
    Sense id: en-blue_card-en-noun-cFCoDbsV Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 20 33 35 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 12 25 44 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 20 31 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 21 32 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 26 19 34 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 20 21 38 21 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 19 22 37 22 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 22 23 34 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 19 26 33 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 20 21 32 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 19 26 33 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 24 19 38 20
  4. (sports) A penalty card that in association football indicates an offense at a lesser level than a yellow card, and has other meanings in bandy, handball, and Quidditch. Categories (topical): Sports
    Sense id: en-blue_card-en-noun-ZAdGru0S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 20 33 35 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 20 31 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 21 32 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 20 21 32 27 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Blue European Labour Card Hypernyms: work permit Related terms: green card

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.