card-carrying

English

Adjective

card-carrying (not comparable)

  1. Enrolled as a member of an organization, and having a card to prove it; used especially to signify loyal dedication to that organization or the cause it supports.
  2. (by extension) Loyal and dedicated to some cause.

Quotations
  • 2004 Peter Mommsen - Homage to a Broken Man: The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold
    Except for the men in uniform, few in the hail were card-carrying Nazis. But they must have long shared a silent approval of Hitler's goals.

Derived terms
  • card-carrying Communist

Synonyms
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