debit
Meaning of debit
noun
- an entry recording a sum owed, listed on the left-hand side or column of an account.
a double-entry system of bookkeeping, where each debit has a corresponding credit entry
- (of a bank or other financial organization) remove (an amount of money) from a customer's account.
$10,000 was debited from their account
late Middle English (in the sense ‘debt’): from French débit, from Latin debitum ‘something owed’ (see debt). The verb sense dates from the 17th century; the current noun sense from the late 18th century.
Information about debit
- The plural form of debit is: debits.
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Hyphenation of debit
debit
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- debit is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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Words that rhyme with debit
predebit, redebit, freebit, Nekhebit, Thebit, snakebit, snafflebit, rarebit, rebit
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