debit
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By May, Polymarket had brought fraud rates back to the industry norm, a person familiar with the matter said, in part by limiting the number of debit cards users could link to their accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The pay-as-you-go scheme allows customers to use a tap-in and tap-out process using a contactless debit card or smartphone device without needing to buy tickets in advance for adult single journeys.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It has long had debit and credit cards as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
She found the property on Google and was making payments by getting prepaid debit cards and transferring the code by phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Not really,” Felix mumbled, and picked up his debit card for the first time.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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Many deals are dependent on conditions such as a minimum amount of money into your account in the first few weeks, or minimum number of direct debits leaving it.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Behind the scenes, the service will then automatically transfer direct debits and standing orders, move the balance, redirect incoming payments, such as benefits or salaries, and close your old account.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
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
I took the disk to my room, installed the program on my laptop and whizzed through the tutorial, and in no time flat, I was entering debits and listing credits.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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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
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
This will ensure that the appropriate funds are debited or credited from your account when you pay for a purchase or receive compensation from work.
From Encyclopedia.com ● Feb. 5, 2018
Or, again, should Ireland be debited with the cost of the machinery for carrying out Land Purchase, a policy admittedly rendered necessary by the enforced maintenance in the past of bad land laws?
From The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers
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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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 17
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Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 1-3
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