phone card

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

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phone′ card`

calling card (def. 3).

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Noun

phone card - a card that is used instead of cash to make telephone calls

calling card

charge card, charge plate, credit card, plastic - a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered; "do you take plastic?"

Translations

carte d’appel

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You know a telephone card, I suppose, when you see one!"

The telephone card was not on its hook; it was on the floor.

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A KDnet spokesperson said that the company had been satisfied with the TSSI solution and had never suffered any incident of a counterfeit telephone card in circulation.

TSSI wins contract renewal to prevent counterfeiting in South Korea

The most severe blow to Cuban internauts came in January of this year when the government decreed that individuals must purchase a telephone card in US dollars in order to gain access.

CUBANS WITHOUT DOLLARS LOSE INTERNET ACCESS

A MOLDOVAN who used a cloned telephone card to make international calls to his girlfriend claimed he found it in a phonebox, a court heard yesterday.

Phone card cheat guilty

* When communications services are acquired by use of a prepaid telephone card, the tax is treated as paid at the time the card is transferred by a telecommunications carrier to any person who is not such a carrier (Sec.

Final regs. on excise tax treatment of prepaid telephone cards

On paying for a general-admission pass to the festival, viewers received a packet that included a map delineating the locations of Janssens's interventions and a telephone card that provided a 900 number that visitors could use to call the artist's answering machine.

ANN VERONICA JANSSENS

Scotiabank managing director said there were also plans to construct a cluster of ATM machines on the site as well as a telephone card center and other public facilities.

SCOTIABANK BUYS HOTEL

Our final communication, sent to employees at this time, was a special telephone card that provided a handy, quick summary of facts and how-to information that employees can use to call for current information about their investments or to make changes in investment elections.

Should you bundle 401k services?

Summary: Muscat: Two telephone card wholesale dealers in Muscat have filed a case with the local ...

Retailer dupes expat traders, runs away with RO50,000

The TRA '97 Conference Report clarifies that the base to which the communications excise tax applies is the retail value of the prepaid telephone card. This was explained with respect to two types of cards.

Prepaid telephone cards

A telephone card based on Johannes Kahrs' painting HIT, 1994, is being issued to commemorate his receipt of the International Schlumberger Award for Art.

Johannes Kahrs