debit
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I accepted the disappointment the moment I tapped my debit card: this was not a $16 sandwich.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
According to the Energy Saving Trust, the electricity unit rate under the July to September 2026 price cap is 26.11p per kWh for direct debit customers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Prepayment meter users pay £129 more a year than those on competitive fixed direct debit tariffs, while drivers living in deprived postcodes faced an average of £153 extra on their motor insurance.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Even beyond the supermarket, it was common to use checks at malls, big-box stores or gas stations until the early 2000s, when they were ultimately upstaged by credit and debit cards.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
On one visit to New York City, where Woolner’s mother lives in the winter, Woolner lost her debit card and felt anxious about being disconnected, even briefly, from her money.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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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
They urged backers to ignore the message and cancel any direct debits that may have been set up.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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
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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
In a table, the draft report detailed hundreds of debited transactions entered by "non-branch users", who the report explained "can access branches remotely for support purposes".
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024
Similar protection services are offered for ACH or transactions that are debited directly from a business bank account.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
At one bank, more than 60,000 accounts were debited more than $330 million the following morning, with about 7,300 account balances reduced by more than $10,000.
From Reuters ● Jun. 27, 2023
They bought at a price and sold for more, and the difference in value was debited and redebited to old Mother Earth.
From The Spoilers of the Valley by Watson, Robert
But the mechanism by which the government sells its debt, debiting bank reserves held at the Fed in exchange for the new bills and bonds, could still test the resilience of some smaller institutions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
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 Guthrie, William
Vocabulary lists containing debit
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 17
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Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 1-3
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