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debit

[deb-it] / ˈdɛb ɪt /


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Talk to an elder-care attorney and ask to see the accounts for his debit card and other financial transactions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

The stolen data did not include Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, financial account information, credit or debit card information or account passwords.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Moreover, paying by direct debit costs less per unit than by so-called standard credit.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

For those who don’t know, the Direct Express card is a prepaid debit card on which a person’s federal benefit gets loaded each month.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Benji pointed to the debit card still in her hand.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

It may also involve traditional accounting activities, such as tracking payments in a general ledger, involving debits and credits and double-entry accounting, as well as accounts payable activities of making payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

The ledger of Newman’s youth had mostly debits for the future painter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

She wonders why her premium account drew no call from her relationship manager and why the bank failed to flag such massive debits.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025

According to Chabrier, the new rule keeps pace with the change in overdraft protection as paper checks have been replaced with instant debits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

And then the account book proper, with debits and credits on facing pages.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Adam Bainbridge, a teacher from north London, discovered while routinely checking his accounts on Thursday morning that Thames had debited £145,562 from his bank account.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

In order to operate this way, fintech companies often need a middleman between the fintech company and the bank that can do the bookkeeping necessary to make sure customer accounts are credited and debited correctly.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024

Instead, motorists already in possession of the device can expect to have their toll debited automatically from an account without incurring an $8 processing fee tacked on to the total.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

Payments that are automatically debited are expected to resume on the first due date after payments are again required.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2021

Those expenses must be debited to the Algerine mission, and not carried into your ordinary account as resident.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

Warren also said that Bilt’s practice of immediately debiting rent payments may have run afoul of the 2009 Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act’s disclosure requirements for credit cards.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Last month, the bureau punished Enova, which runs online lender CashNetUSA, for failing to honor promised loan extensions and for debiting customers’ bank accounts without authorization.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2019

This ability “endeared him to the Vatican,” because he could move church funds around by debiting an account in one branch and crediting one in another, with coins never changing hands.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2015

“All debt management is, is debiting and crediting different accounts,” Mr. Mosler said, recalling seeing numbers appear and disappear from his computer at Bankers Trust in New York in the 1970s.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2013

His fee was 10s., and, after debiting his out-takes, he received 7s.

From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie


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