debit
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Nine in 10 users of mobile wallets have their debit card loaded as their default payment method on their phone, with the remainder having registered their credit card.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
PayPal in its earnings report pointed to growth in peer-to-peer payments platform Venmo and payments processor Braintree, as well as its debit card and buy now, pay later businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Starbucks' estimated credit and debit card payment volume fell 17 percent from May to June, according to local data platform firm IGAWorks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
If you do discover an unauthorized charge on your debit card, notifying your bank or credit union within two business days of noticing the fraud caps your maximum liability at $50.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
I wonder if Mom has noticed, by now, that her debit card is missing.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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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
They urged backers to ignore the message and cancel any direct debits that may have been set up.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
And then the account book proper, with debits and credits on facing pages.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing debit
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 17
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Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 1-3
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