Debit

Noun

 * 1) In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account to record a debt.
 * 2) A sum of money taken out of an account.

Derived terms

 * debit card

Related terms

 * debt
 * debitor
 * debenture

Verb

 * 1) To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
 * 2) To remove a sum of money from an account as a payment.

Thesaurus
balance, balance the books, bereavement, book, budgeting, capitalize, carry, carry over, cast up accounts, charge off, close out, close the books, cost, costing, costing-out, credit, damage, dead loss, debiting, deficit spending, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, disbursal, disbursement, dispossession, divestment, docket, double entry, enter, entry, expenditure, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, injury, item, journalize, keep books, log, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, make an entry, minute, notation, note, payment, perdition, post, post up, privation, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, scheduling, single entry, spending, spoliation, strike a balance, stripping, taking away, total loss

Etymology
< debilitum:, neuter past participle of debere:; see debt.

Noun

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 * Russian: дебит
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 * Chinese:
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 * Dutch:
 * Greek: ανάληψη


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: дебит

Verb

 * German: abbuchen

Adjective

 * 1) of or relating to process of taking money from an account
 * 2) of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function {as used by US Postal Service, Walmart, and other payees}

Antonyms

 * credit

Derived terms

 * debit card

Anagrams

 * bidet, bited