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[deb-it] / ˈdɛb ɪt /


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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

By May, Polymarket had brought fraud rates back to the industry norm, a person familiar with the matter said, in part by limiting the number of debit cards users could link to their accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

The pay-as-you-go scheme allows customers to use a tap-in and tap-out process using a contactless debit card or smartphone device without needing to buy tickets in advance for adult single journeys.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

All three of us have personal debit cards.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

And then the account book proper, with debits and credits on facing pages.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Similar protection services are offered for ACH or transactions that are debited directly from a business bank account.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2024

This will ensure that the appropriate funds are debited or credited from your account when you pay for a purchase or receive compensation from work.

From Encyclopedia.com ● Feb. 5, 2018

After this process, they shall be debited or charged for nothing but the money-balance that remains in their hands.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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

It’s a draft for one hundred pounds on the Bank of Montreal, and it’s a secret; but I’m not debiting the estate with it.

From Lorimer of the Northwest by Alfred James Dewey




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