Wild card

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• Wild-Card — (tennis) Pour les articles homonymes, voir Wild Card et WC. Une Wild Card est un anglicisme désignant une invitation qui est octroyée à un joueur de tennis pour participer à un tournoi. Les joueurs bénéficiaires d une Wild Card sont directement… …   Wikipédia en Français

• wild card — ˈwild card noun [countable] 1. something that has an unexpected effect on a situation: wild card in • A wild card in the company s prospects is the disagreement that has broken out between the company and some of its 16,000 workers. 2. COMPUTING… …   Financial and business terms

• wild card — wild cards 1) N COUNT: oft N in n 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.… …   English dictionary

• Wild Card 2 — is a lottery game (which replaced the original version of Wild Card ; hence, the 2 ) played in four contiguous states in the northern United States (Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.) It is administered by the Multi State Lottery… …   Wikipedia

• wild card — wild .card n 1.) a playing card that can represent any other card 2.) someone whose behaviour or effect on a situation is difficult to guess 3.) a player who is a wild card or who is given a wild card is chosen for a competition although they… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Wild Card — Wild|card, die; , s, Wild Card, die; , s [ wa̮iltka:ɐ̯t ; engl. wild card, eigtl. = wilde (= beliebig verwendbare) Spielkarte] (Sport, bes. Tennis): (vom Veranstalter erteilte) Berechtigung, an einem Turnier od. Wettkampf teilzunehmen, ohne die… …   Universal-Lexikon

• wild card — 1927, in figurative sense, from literal use in poker, from WILD (Cf. wild) (adj.) + CARD (Cf. card) (n.). Sports team sense first recorded 1959 …   Etymology dictionary

• wild card — wild ,card noun count 1. ) COMPUTING a sign or symbol used for representing any letter or number. The most common wild card is the asterisk (*). a ) in a game of cards, a card that can be used by a player to represent any card they choose 2. )… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• wild card — n. 1. Card Games a card that has been declared wild ☆ 2. Sports any of the teams, other than those that finish in first and sometimes second place, that qualify for a championship playoff 3. Slang an element that cannot be predicted or controlled …   English World dictionary

• wild card — loc.s.f.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} TS sport spec. nel tennis, invito che permette a un atleta di particolare richiamo di partecipare a un torneo pur non essendosi iscritto in tempo o pur non avendo il necessario punteggio in classifica {{line}} …   Dizionario italiano