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debit

[deb-it] / ˈdɛb ɪt /


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It has long had debit and credit cards as well.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

They set pensions up for both kids when they were born and have been paying into them through a monthly direct debit.

From BBC Sep. 10, 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

He said Cash App was developing Tags before TikTok magic-wand videos went mainstream, as the company was looking for ways to take the unique characteristics of the Cash App debit card “to the next level.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

Felix whipped out his replacement debit card and dropped it on the desk.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

Many people have been put off that idea owing to the perceived complication of wages being paid into that account, and direct debits and the like needing to be moved.

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 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

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

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

We have a naval station at the Cape of Good Hope, with the maintenance of which, that colony, Australia, New Zealand, &c., may be partly debited.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 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

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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