overdraft

English

Alternative forms

• overdraught (UK)

Etymology

From over- +‎ draft.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvədɹɑːft/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: ō'vərdrăft, IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvɚdɹæft/
• Homophone: overdraught

Noun

overdraft (countable and uncountable, plural overdrafts)

1. (uncountable) The act of overdrawing a bank account.
2. (countable) The amount overdrawn.

   I have an overdraft of £1234.

3. (countable) The maximum amount that may be overdrawn.

   The bank have given me an overdraft of $2000.

4. The extraction of groundwater from an aquifer beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.
5. A series of flues in a furnace; the current of air forced through them.

Derived terms

• daylight overdraft

Related terms

• overdraw
• overdrawn

Translations

act of overdrawing a bank account

Bulgarian: овърдрафт m (ovǎrdraft), превишаване на лимита (previšavane na limita) Chinese: Cantonese: 透支 (tau3 zi1) Hokkien: 透支 (thàu-chi) Mandarin: 透支 (zh) (tòuzhī) Finnish: tilinylitys French: découvert (fr) m German: Überziehung f Greek: υπερανάληψη (el) f (yperanálipsi) Hungarian: hiteltúllépés (hu) Icelandic: yfirdráttur m Italian: scoperto (it) Japanese: 超過引き出し (chōka hikidashi) Kazakh: овердрафт (overdraft) Malay: overdraf Maori: tarepatanga Norwegian: overtrekk n Portuguese: saque a descoberto m Serbo-Croatian: ulazak u minus m, prekoračenje po računu n Spanish: sobregiro (es) m Swedish: övertrassering c

amount overdrawn

Finnish: tilinylitys French: découvert (fr) m German: Dispositionskredit (de) m, Überziehungskredit m Maori: tarepa, moni tarepa, kaute tarepa Serbo-Croatian: prekoračenje (sh) n, minus (sh) m Swedish: övertrassering c

maximum amount that may be overdrawn

Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: luottoraja (fi) German: Dispositionsrahmen m, Überziehungsgrenze f Greek: όριο υπερανάληψης n (ório yperanálipsis) Serbo-Croatian: dopušteno prekoračenje po računu n Slovene: limit m

series of flues in a furnace

Bulgarian: вдухване отгоре (vduhvane otgore)

Verb

overdraft (third-person singular simple present overdrafts, present participle overdrafting, simple past and past participle overdrafted)

1. (transitive) To extract groundwater from (an aquifer) beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.