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debit

[deb-it] / ˈdɛb ɪt /


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It has long had debit and credit cards as well.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

She found the property on Google and was making payments by getting prepaid debit cards and transferring the code by phone.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

In exchange for narrower networks and stricter prior-authorization rules, enrollees can choose plans with extra benefits, such as dental and vision coverage, prepaid debit cards to buy healthy food, or transportation to the doctor.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

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

In a smooth move—he’d had plenty of practice—Benji whipped out his debit card and slapped it into her hand.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

Many deals are dependent on conditions such as a minimum amount of money into your account in the first few weeks, or minimum number of direct debits leaving it.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Behind the scenes, the service will then automatically transfer direct debits and standing orders, move the balance, redirect incoming payments, such as benefits or salaries, and close your old account.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

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

I took the disk to my room, installed the program on my laptop and whizzed through the tutorial, and in no time flat, I was entering debits and listing credits.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

Instead, motorists already in possession of the device can expect to have their toll debited automatically from an account without incurring an $8 processing fee tacked on to the total.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2023

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

If they did not recapture them it was all the same; they were still debited to the buyer in the royal accounts.

From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

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

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

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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