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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

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

Between 1 October and 31 December 2026, average standing charges for direct debit customers will be 54.83p a day for electricity and 29.68p a day for gas.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

They were only interested in his debit card.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

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

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

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

The bank fixed the error and gave him a deposit slip that read: “Correction, teller debited wrong account.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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

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

In fact, according to a case brought by the Dubai Islamic Bank against Citibank, more than $151m "was debited by Citibank from DIB's correspondent account without proper authorisation".

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2018

The new firm was debited with all the stock on hand at cost prices, and in all future business the profits were to be divided.

From Six Years in the Prisons of England by Frank Henderson

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

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

It’s a draft for one hundred pounds on the Bank of Montreal, and it’s a secret; but I’m not debiting the estate with it.

From Lorimer of the Northwest by Alfred James Dewey


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