Definition of "card-index" []

• To index a group of items using index cards (verb)

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• "The DD system might have worked fine in the card-index era, but surely we have moved on?"
• "I would like to take you for a moment inside our electronic card-index, the heart of this operation."
• "First of all he procured a card-index box capable of holding about a thousand cards."