noun🔗ShareIn card games, a card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card."In this card game, the jokers are designated as wildcards, meaning they can be used as any card you need to complete a winning hand. "gameChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA competitor or team that is allowed to compete in a tournament despite not reaching the normal standards to qualify for inclusion."Kye Sun-Hui won an Olympic gold medal in Judo, despite being a wild card."sportgameachievementChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA character that substitutes for other characters in regular expressions and globbing"When searching for files, I used wildcards like "*" to find all files ending in ".txt", no matter what their names were. "computingtechnicallanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified."If the character * is acting as a wildcard, then the pattern a*m matches each of the words amalgam, atom and alum."computingtechnologycharactersystemtypewordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(also written wild card) An uncontrolled or unpredictable element."In any election, undecided voters are often considered wildcards because their votes can shift the outcome in unexpected ways. "elementtendencycharactersituationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(also written wild card) An element, often deliberately concealed, which is withheld for contingency."The manager kept a few experienced employees as wildcards in case some new trainees struggled with the project. "elementpossibilitygamebusinessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
