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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Debit \Deb"it\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Debit \Deb"it\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
debit
noun: an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing [syn: {debit entry}] [ant: {credit}]
verb: enter as debit [ant: {credit}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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