Debit

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  • noun. An item of debt as recorded in an account.
  • noun. The left-hand side of an account or accounting ledger where bookkeeping entries are made.
  • noun. An entry of a sum in the left-hand side of an account.
  • noun. The sum of such entries.
  • transitive verb. To enter (a sum) on the left-hand side of an account or accounting ledger.
  • transitive verb. To charge with a debit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. That which is entered in an account as a debt; a recorded item of debt: as, the debits exceed the credits.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively.
  • transitive verb. To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit.
  • transitive verb. To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account to record a debt.
  • noun. A sum of money taken out of an account.
  • verb. To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
  • verb. To remove a sum of money from an account as a payment.
  • adjective. of or relating to process of taking money from an account
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing
  • verb. 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."