1 a written note in a bank account or other financial record of a sum of money owed or spent:
on the debit side of an account * (figurative) On the debit side (= a negative result will be that) the new shopping centre will increase traffic problems.
2 a sum of money taken from a bank account:
The total debits on the account were ｣2000 last month.
compareCREDITn.
seealsoDIRECTDEBIT
verb [VN] when a bank debits an account, it takes money from it:
The money will be debited from your account each month. * The bank will debit your account with any withdrawals made using your payment card.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for debit is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is debit a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, debit is tagged as noun.
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