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Debit

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Accounting An item of debt as recorded in an account.

n. Accounting The left-hand side of an account or accounting ledger where bookkeeping entries are made.

n. Accounting An entry of a sum in the left-hand side of an account.

n. Accounting The sum of such entries.

n. A drawback; a detriment.

v. To enter (a sum) on the left-hand side of an account or accounting ledger.

v. To charge with a debit: The bank debited my account for the overdrawn check.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account to record a debt.

n. A sum of money taken out of an account.

v. To make an entry on the debit side of an account.

v. To remove a sum of money from an account as a payment.

adj. of or relating to process of taking money from an account

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively.

v. To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit.

v. To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. That which is entered in an account as a debt; a recorded item of debt: as, the debits exceed the credits.

n. That part of another's account in which one enters any article of goods furnished or money paid to or on account of that other: as, place that to my debit.

To charge with as a debt: as, to debit a purchaser the amount of goods sold.

To enter on the debtor side of a book: as, to debit the sum or amount of goods sold.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing

v. enter as debit

Word Usage

"Visa, which has a larger market share in debit cards, benefits more from their usage for expenses including groceries and gasoline."

Antonym

credit

Verb Form

debited debiting debits

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

entry ledger entry accounting entry

Cross Reference

debit side credit

Form

debited debiting debit card

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

debt charged entry enter

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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