phone card

noun

: a prepaid card used to pay for the phone calls one makes

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The platform also integrates seamlessly with more than 150 brand gift cards, as well as programs like phone cards, mobile top-ups, OTC, and eWIC. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025 Rumi grimaces whenever his parents put him on the phone with their relatives back in Egypt, unsure of what to say, and is relieved by how quickly their phone card runs out of minutes. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025 These programs educate Cubans about democratic ideals, provide access to alternative forms of media and phone cards for family members to communicate with political prisoners. Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 Material support can run from money or weapons to lodging, false papers, or even a phone card. Ryan Lucas, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025 Other details flicker briefly into the foreground: her history of drug use, the waning account balance on her phone card. Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023 The clerk told a deputy sheriff that Williams regularly came into the Sunoco to buy prepaid phone cards, and said Williams came in again on January 19. Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023 One of those local spots is at JHC Wireless, a Chinatown phone card seller operating behind a tiny counter in the hallway of an East Broadway arcade, which joined the network in 2019. Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 30 Dec. 2022 For years, John Susoeff walked from his home two blocks to the Walgreens at Bush and Larkin streets - to pick up prescriptions for him and less mobile neighbors, to get a new phone card and to snag senior discounts the first Tuesday of the month. Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of phone card was in 1981

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“Phone card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20card. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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