- published: 30 Jun 2015
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A credit card is a small plastic card issued to users as a system of payment. It allows its holder to buy goods and services based on the holder's promise to pay for these goods and services. The issuer of the card creates a revolving account and grants a line of credit to the consumer (or the user) from which the user can borrow money for payment to a merchant or as a cash advance to the user.
A credit card is different from a charge card: a charge card requires the balance to be paid in full each month. In contrast, credit cards allow the consumers a continuing balance of debt, subject to interest being charged. A credit card also differs from a cash card, which can be used like currency by the owner of the card.
The size of most credit cards is 85.60 × 53.98 mm (33/8 × 21/8 in), and conform to the ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 standard. Credit cards have an embossed bank card number complying with the ISO/IEC 7812 numbering standard.
The concept of using a card for purchases was described in 1887 by Edward Bellamy in his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy used the term credit card eleven times in this novel.
Eloquence
Innocence and rhyme
Mystery, and there just in time
Material imperfection
A given classic girl duress
Your typical "all around" is pending less
These bills I have to pay every day
It makes it kinda hard
To write a song from the heart
But I do it anyway
Like Flavor Flare I create
Add up this debt, stress, mess
Sit back
And let it inspirate
I don't need no credit card
Bringing me down
Down, down, down, put me
Underground way down, way down
Tough again
That's what I am, an option
Should I depend on
Inferior, common, boring self
It was so easy to sign the dotted line, mesmerized
Thinking of stuff I want to buy without a peace of mind
Dropping a dime everytime something catches my eye