cardbearer

cardbearer

English

Etymology

card +‎ bearer

Noun

cardbearer (plural cardbearers)

1. One who holds a membership card.
   • 1987, Steve H. Nickles, Materials for understanding credit and payment systems, page 826:

     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.

   • 1993, Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard, A Memory for Wonders, page 119:

     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.