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debit

[deb-it] / ˈdɛb ɪt /


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Julia told PA that the debit took Adam's account "considerably" into overdraft.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Alaska also announced a number of changes to its loyalty program, including a new debit card it plans to launch next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

For those who don’t know, the Direct Express card is a prepaid debit card on which a person’s federal benefit gets loaded each month.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Not really,” Felix mumbled, and picked up his debit card for the first time.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

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

Banks, businesses and social media sites that your loved one used will need you to complete a raft of paperwork to close accounts, and end direct debits, subscriptions and the like.

From BBC ● May 15, 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

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

In fact, according to a case brought by the Dubai Islamic Bank against Citibank, more than $151m "was debited by Citibank from DIB's correspondent account without proper authorisation".

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2018

This total, I say, debited to a fund, a fund …” “In a word, the fund of the Grand Ducal settled estates.”

From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann

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

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 William Guthrie




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