English-French translations for debit

• débit
  En outre, le débit direct SEPA ne sera lancé que plus tard cette année. Furthermore, the Sepa Direct Debit will only be launched later this year.
  Les personnes âgées et les patients ne se résument pas à une écriture de débit. The elderly and patients are more than a debit entry.
  Une réglementation européenne a été ainsi adoptée pour les cartes bancaires, les virements et les débits d'office. A European regulation has therefore been adopted for bank cards, credit transfers and direct debits.

Definition of 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
• To make an entry on the debit side of an account
• of or relating to process of taking money from an account

Examples

• A cash sale is recorded as debit on the cash account and as credit on the sales account.
• We shall debit your account for the amount of the purchase
• We shall debit the amount of your purchase to your account.

Related words

• debiting
• debitive
• debitor
• debitage
• debit card
• debit order
• debit authorization
• debit entry
• debit balance