CARD-CARRYING


Meaning of CARD-CARRYING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈkärd-ˌka-rē-iŋ ]

adjective

Etymology: from the assumption that such a person carries an identification card

Date: 1948

1. : being a full-fledged member of an organization (as a Communist party)

2.

a. : strongly identified with a group (as of people with a common interest)

card-carrying members of the ecology movement — R. J. Neuhaus

b. : being such emphatically or unmistakably

a card-carrying hippie

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.