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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
wild card
ˈwild card [wild card wild cards] BrE NAmE noun
1. (in card games)a card that has no value of its own and takes the value of any card that the player chooses
2. (sport)an opportunity for sb to play in a competition when they have not qualified in the usual way; a player who enters a competition in this way
•He was given a wild card for the tournament.
•She was beaten in the semi-finals by wild card Louise Smith.
3. (computing)a symbol that has no meaning of its own and can represent any letter or number
•An asterisk is commonly used as a wild card.
•a wild-card search
4. a person or thing whose behaviour or effect is difficult to predict
•The Nationalist party is the wild card in the election.
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