Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - wild card
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Wild card
wild card
noun Etymology: ~, playing card with arbitrarily determined value Date: 1971 1. an unknown or unpredictable factor 2. one picked to fill a leftover playoff or tournament berth after regularly qualifying competitors have all been determined 3. (usually wildcard) a symbol (as ? or *) used in a keyword database search to represent the presence of zero, one, or more than one unspecified characters
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also wildcard (wild cards) 1. If you refer to someone or something as a wild card in a particular situation, you mean that they cause uncertainty because you do not know how they will behave. The wild card in the picture is eastern Europe. N-COUNT: oft N in n 2. If a sports player is given a wild card for a particular competition, they are allowed to play in it, although they have not qualified for it in the usual way. You can also use wild card to refer to a player who enters a competition in this way. N-COUNT 3. A wildcard is a symbol such as * or ? which is used in some computing commands or searches in order to represent any character or range of characters. (COMPUTING) N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n 1 a playing card that can represent any other card 2 technical a sign that can represent any letter in some computer commands 3 someone that you do not know well, so that you cannot guess how they will behave in certain situations ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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