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debit

[deb-it] / ˈdɛb ɪt /


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Today, it could involve a caregiver who does not have access to this debit card.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

If you pay your council tax by direct debit, the money will be paid directly into the bank account that you use to pay it, from the start of January.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 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

Alaska also announced a number of changes to its loyalty program, including a new debit card it plans to launch next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Perfect example. You’re not responsible with the money. It needs to stop. I want your debit card.”

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

But in a statement, Corbyn said the emails were "unauthorised" and should be ignored, while any direct debits set up should be "immediately cancelled".

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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

The cash helped her cover expenses until payday, when the app debited the borrowed $100, plus $18 for the fee and tip.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 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

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

Within a complete trading area this is certain to happen, since purchases and sales of goods are equal and what is credited to one man is debited to another.

From Banking by William A. Scott

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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