"cardbearer" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From card + bearer.",
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          "ref": "1987, Steve H. Nickles, Materials for understanding credit and payment systems, page 826:",
          "text": "These cards were, therefore, a representation to the merchants (third parties) to whom they were presented that defendants' husbands (second parties — cardbearers) were authorized to make charges upon the defendants' (first parties) accounts.",
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        {
          "ref": "1993, Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard, A Memory for Wonders, page 119:",
          "text": "I did not see any difficulty in belonging to both, and I was a cardbearer in the Party before I could be sure of becoming a Catholic for good.",
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        "One who holds a membership card."
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  "etymology_text": "From card + bearer.",
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        "One who holds a membership card."
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