"drawcard" meaning in English

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        "2": "draw",
        "3": "card"
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      "expansion": "draw + card",
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  "etymology_text": "draw + card",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drawcards",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Robert Kavanagh, Making People′s Theatre, page 182",
          "text": "I remember once in the professional theatre in Addis Ababa a certain actor had become a popular drawcard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1998, The Bulletin, Issues 6138-6146, page 62,\nFalconry is another big drawcard at Hever and at other historical sites."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years, page 273",
          "text": "The drawcard was a two-act comic revue written for the occasion, “Quatsch” (German, “Nonsense”).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Anthony Ham, Miles Roddis, Kari Lundgren, Norway, Lonely Planet, page 19",
          "text": "A single trip might not seem particularly environmentally significant, but Norway′s environment remains one of its main drawcards and one that millions of travellers who visit Norway every year have a responsibility to protect.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 28, Todd Woodbridge, “Australian tennis great says heat simply part of game”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-08-04",
          "text": "He was the defending champion, a proven drawcard and a player of the future.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that attracts customers, visitors, spectators, etc. to a place or an event."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "customer",
          "customer"
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        [
          "visitor",
          "visitor"
        ],
        [
          "spectator",
          "spectator"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) Something that attracts customers, visitors, spectators, etc. to a place or an event."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "attraction"
        },
        {
          "word": "draw"
        },
        {
          "word": "drawing card"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "attraction to attend a place or an event",
          "word": "vetonaula"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "attraction to attend a place or an event",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Attraktion"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "attraction to attend a place or an event",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Vorzug"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "attraction to attend a place or an event",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Zugpferd"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drawcard"
}

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  "etymology_text": "draw + card",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drawcards",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1997, Robert Kavanagh, Making People′s Theatre, page 182",
          "text": "I remember once in the professional theatre in Addis Ababa a certain actor had become a popular drawcard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1998, The Bulletin, Issues 6138-6146, page 62,\nFalconry is another big drawcard at Hever and at other historical sites."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years, page 273",
          "text": "The drawcard was a two-act comic revue written for the occasion, “Quatsch” (German, “Nonsense”).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Anthony Ham, Miles Roddis, Kari Lundgren, Norway, Lonely Planet, page 19",
          "text": "A single trip might not seem particularly environmentally significant, but Norway′s environment remains one of its main drawcards and one that millions of travellers who visit Norway every year have a responsibility to protect.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 28, Todd Woodbridge, “Australian tennis great says heat simply part of game”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-08-04",
          "text": "He was the defending champion, a proven drawcard and a player of the future.",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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        ],
        [
          "visitor",
          "visitor"
        ],
        [
          "spectator",
          "spectator"
        ]
      ],
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        "(UK) Something that attracts customers, visitors, spectators, etc. to a place or an event."
      ],
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        {
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        },
        {
          "word": "draw"
        },
        {
          "word": "drawing card"
        }
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "attraction to attend a place or an event",
      "word": "vetonaula"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attraction to attend a place or an event",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Attraktion"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attraction to attend a place or an event",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Vorzug"
    },
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attraction to attend a place or an event",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Zugpferd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "drawcard"
}