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debit
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See also: débit
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French debet, from Latin debitum (“what is owed, a debt”), neuter of debitus, past participle of debere (“to owe”); Doublet of debt.
Pronunciation
Noun
debit (countable and uncountable, plural debits)
- In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
- A cash sale is recorded as debit on the cash account and as credit on the sales account.
- A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
in bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account
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sum of money taken out of a bank account
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See also
Verb
debit (third-person singular simple present debits, present participle debiting, simple past and past participle debited)
- To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
- 1962 October, “The Victoria Line”, in Modern Railways, page 217:
- The economist also observed that some of the Victoria Line's cost should be debited to existing lines, as they would benefit from the rebuilding of their interchange stations with the new tube.
- To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.
- We shall debit your account for the amount of the purchase.
- We shall debit the amount of your purchase to your account.
Derived terms
Translations
to make an entry on the debit side of an account
to record a receivable
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Adjective
debit (not comparable)
- of or relating to process of taking money from an account
- of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Further reading
- “debit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “debit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Dutch debiet (“discharge, flowrate”), from French débit (“flow, rate of flow, discharge”), from Latin dēbitum (“what is owed, a debt”).
Noun
Compounds
- debit air
- debit aliran
- debit andalan
- debit banjir
- debit desain
- debit fluida
- debit hujan
- debit limbah
- debit limpasan
- debit limpasan hujan
- debit maksimum
- debit puncak
- debit rencana
- debit sedimen
- debit sungai
Etymology 2
A semantic loan from English debit, from Middle French debet (Modern French débit), from Latin dēbitum (“what is owed, a debt”).
Noun
- (accounting) debit:
- in bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account
- a sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer
- (accounting) receivable: a debt owed, usually to a business, from the perspective of that business
- Synonym: piutang
Alternative forms
Related terms
Affixed terms
- mendebitkan
- pendebitan
Compounds
- debit bank
Usage notes
The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen in Malay debit.
Further reading
- “debit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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Romanian
Etymology
Noun
debit n (plural debite)
Declension
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