gift card

noun

: a card entitling the recipient to receive goods or services of a specified value from the issuer

Examples of gift card in a Sentence

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Amazon gift cards are offered for sale at a Walgreens store on December 03, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025 Several Louisville-area restaurants are offering bonus gift cards with purchases this holiday season. Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Dec. 2025 For example, hide a new mug inside a box of coffee pods or slip a movie theater gift card into an empty popcorn box. Cody Godwin, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025 The seventh-annual Shrimp and Gifts took place at a local Walmart, where the children were given $200 gift cards and a meal courtesy of Jimmy's Famous Seafood and Frank's Pizza & Pasta. Adam Thompson, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gift card

Word History

First Known Use

1990, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gift card was in 1990

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“Gift card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gift%20card. Accessed 24 Dec. 2025.

Kids Definition

gift card

noun
: a card that is worth a certain amount of money and that is given to someone to buy something (as goods or services from a business)
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