Definition of "phone card" []

• A prepaid card or a credit card that can be used to pay for telephone calls. Also called calling card. (noun)

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• "I took with me my mother's cash card and her phone card and all her available money, and my own new credit card and cheques, and also a zipped bag containing the things I'd borrowed ten days earlier from Emily - helmet, padded jacket, jodhpur boots - that my mother hadn't yet returned to her."
• "Malice, thought Hamish, inserting a phone card and dialling the number, gives the graf fi ti writer a certain vicious insight into what might hurt most."