debit
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The UK Payments Market report, released once a year, shows that debit cards - included those loaded onto phones - were the predominant way to pay last year.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
He told the callers Kimberly could swing by home for a debit card, then hit an ATM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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
Because I used a debit card for the transaction, I have since canceled it, and my credit is now frozen across all three bureaus.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Benji pointed to the debit card still in her hand.
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
Sultana had promoted the membership portal on social media but Corbyn later said the emails were "unauthorised" and should be ignored, while any direct debits set up should be "immediately cancelled".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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
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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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
The cash helped her cover expenses until payday, when the app debited the borrowed $100, plus $18 for the fee and tip.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 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
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
Deduct cost of manufacture 608.60 Difference to credit of the State $426.40 Bricks were debited to Government Works at $20 per laksa.
From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by John Frederick Adolphus McNair
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 William Guthrie
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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