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green card

 
 
noun [C] GOVERNMENT, LAW

Definition

a document which gives permission for a foreigner to live and work in the US: He had to leave Chicago because he couldn't get a green card.
(Definition of green card noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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