Definition of Green card

1. Noun. A card that identifies the bearer as an alien with permanent resident status in the United States. "He was surprised to discover that green cards are no longer green"

Generic synonyms: Positive Identification

Definition of Green card

1. Noun. (American English) A US work permit, officially known as United States Permanent Resident Card. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Card

green at the gills
green bacteria
green bag
green ban
green bans
green bean
green beans
green behind the ears
green belt
green bottle flies
green bottle fly
green broom
green building
green cancer
green card (current term)
green cards
green chain
green collar
green cormorant
green corn
green corridor
green crab
green crabs
green diesel
green dinosaur
green douglas fir
green dragon
green energies
green energy

Literary usage of Green card

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Mobility of the Highly Skilled by Oecd (2002)
"Chancellor Schroder announced in February 2000 a so-called "green card"l for ... The "green card" regulation applies to foreigners from outside the EU and ..."

2. Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction: Submitting Outline Plan by Virginia Dept. of public instruction (1913)
"The green card is half as large as the blue card. The green card ... The ratio of the green card to the blue card is */•,• The yellow card is уя as large as ..."

3. The Egyptian Food Subsidy System: Structure, Performance, and Options for Reform by Akhter U. Ahmed (2001)
"A two-phase policy reform might first seek to transfer nonpoor consumers from the green card to the red card and poor consumers from the red card to the ..."

4. Library School Rules: 1. Card Catalog Rules; 2. Accession Book Rules; 3 by Melvil Dewey, Mary Salome Cutler Fairchild, New York State Library School (1894)
"41 green card for autobiography in author catalog. ... 42 green card for biography in subject catalog For valuable matter bearing on this subject see 923.7 ..."

5. The Geography of Reading: From Rhus Toxicodendron, Radicans and Diversiloba ...by Louis Round Wilson, University of Chicago Library, James Christian Meinich Hanson, Helen Anna Titsworth, Karl Theodor Jacobsen, James Birtley McNair by Louis Round Wilson, University of Chicago Library, James Christian Meinich Hanson, Helen Anna Titsworth, Karl Theodor Jacobsen, James Birtley McNair (1919)
"In case the card ordered stands for a different edition from the book in hand, line out with a ruler all corrections indicated on the green card—never ..."

6. Reforming the Insurance Market in Russia by Mark Douglas Mariska, Thomas B. Manson (2005)
"Another important area for RIMA is the development of international links in motor insurance, especially in the area of the "green card". ..."

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