About The Word Debit
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What's The Definition Of Debit?
[n] an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing
[v] enter as debit, in accounting Synonyms | Synonyms for Debit: debit entry Related Terms | Find terms related to Debit: 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 See Also | account | calculate | charge | entry | ledger entry Debit In Webster's Dictionary \Deb"it\, n. [L. debitum what is due, debt, from debere to
owe: cf. F. d['e]bit. See {Debt}.]
A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; --
mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.
\Deb"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Debited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Debiting}.] 1. To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold. 2. (Bookkeeping) To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold. |
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