debit
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For purchases that don’t qualify, like concert tickets, your niece should use a separate credit card or debit card tied to a bank account.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 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
Banks have the same requirement for debit cards.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 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
“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
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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
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 SZ, PayPal's filter system did not work properly on Monday, resulting in unchecked direct debits being sent to banks alongside legitimate ones.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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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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
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
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
Of the total charges 2% is first of all debited to Hungary on account of the incorporation with this state of the former military frontier.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
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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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 17
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Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 1-3
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