2syllables
debit
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Definitions ofdebit
1noun
- In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
Example: "A cash sale is recorded as debit on the cash account and as credit on the sales account."
- A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.
1verb
- To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
- To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.
Example: "We shall debit the amount of your purchase to your account."
1adjective
- Of or relating to process of taking money from an account
- Of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function
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