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[deb-it] / ˈdɛb ɪt /


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I accepted the disappointment the moment I tapped my debit card: this was not a $16 sandwich.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

According to the Energy Saving Trust, the electricity unit rate under the July to September 2026 price cap is 26.11p per kWh for direct debit customers.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

It noted a more than 60% uplift in volume from debit cards and tap-to-pay options, while buy-now-pay-later volume rose 26%.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

It highlighted growth in Venmo and Braintree, as well as PayPal’s debit card and buy now, pay later businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

The principle of double entry is simple: every transaction is entered twice, as a credit and as a debit.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

This month’s overall inflation figure looking back at April is expected to show a bigger drop as the lower energy price cap is taken into account, even as households' direct debits remain higher.

From BBC May 22, 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

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

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

At one bank, more than 60,000 accounts were debited more than $330 million the following morning, with about 7,300 account balances reduced by more than $10,000.

From Reuters Jun. 27, 2023

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

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

“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 Guthrie, William




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