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What is "green card"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
green card
noun
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▪ But applicants will be given a receipt, along with their old green card, to use as proof of legal residency.
▪ I touched my green card in my jacket pocket and felt the plastic protective cover between my fingers.
▪ It takes an average of nine months to get a green card application processed, officials said.
▪ Mr Premji apparently told him that the green card scheme was bureaucratic and unworkable.
▪ Q.. What is the penalty for those who marry only to obtain a green card for one of the spouses?
Wiktionary
green card

n. 1 (context US English) A US work permit, officially known as United States Permanent Resident Card. 2 (context field hockey English) A warning card, given to a player for an infraction of the rules. A further infraction may warrant a yellow card or red card.

WordNet
green card

n. 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"

Wikipedia
Green Card (film)

Green Card is a 1990 romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by Peter Weir and starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell. The screenplay focuses on an American woman who enters into a marriage of convenience with a Frenchman so he can obtain a green card and remain in the United States. Depardieu won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. There is an Indian film with a similar plot and that is Nala Damayanthi (2003).

Green card

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Green card (IBM/360)

Green card was the abbreviated name given to the IBM/360 Reference data card that served as the shorthand "bible" for programmers during the late 1960s and 1970s. It rapidly became an icon of the 360 era of programming and was later replaced by the "yellow card". The same concept was also later used for an "orange card" for CICS application programming - that showed some internal CICS data structures and their relationships.

Usage examples of "green card".

I sell all ten tonight at once, and then I'm out of the green card business for life.

A sweat-stained green card gave him permission to travel and to maintain no fixed address.

Now he understood her nearly single-minded determination to have a child who would be at least a green card from the very start.

Michaela Nod-dings was only an elementary school teacher, and a green card, but she had proven more adaptable and enduring than quite a few blues, who were now walking the lonely spiral back down again.