debit
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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
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
PayPal owns the Venmo brand and disclosed more than 50% growth in the number of monthly active accounts for its Venmo debit card.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Not really,” Felix mumbled, and picked up his debit card for the first time.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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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
In total these debits amounted to £1.3m and were taken from the accounts of 18 branches run by claimants in the Bates v Post Office case.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024
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
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
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, and all other sums furnished him, to be debited to the Algerine fund.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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
The next is John Sinclair, jun.; after debiting his out-takes, he received 8s. 4d. in cash?-Yes.
From Second Shetland Truck System Report by Guthrie, William
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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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