debit

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: deb=it

OXFORD DICTIONARY

debit, n. & v.
--n.
1 an entry in an account recording a sum owed.
2 the sum recorded.
3 the total of such sums.
4 the debit side of an account.
--v.tr. (debited, debiting)
1 (foll. by against, to) enter (an amount) on the debit side of an account (debited {pound}500 against me).
2 (foll. by with) enter (a person) on the debit side of an account (debited me with {pound}500).

Etymology

F d{eacute}bit f. L debitum DEBT

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

debit

Debt

N debt, obligation, liability, indebtment, debit, score, bill, check, account (credit), arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency, bad debt, interest, premium, usance, usury, floating debt, floating capital, debtor, debitor, mortgagor, defaulter, borrower, indebted, liable, chargeable, answerable for, in debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties, incumbered, involved, involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt, deeply involved, fast tied up, insolvent, minus, out of pocket, unpaid, unrequited, unrewarded, owing, due, in arrear, outstanding, past due, aes alienum debitorem leve gravius inimicum facit, neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Accounts

VB keep accounts, enter, post, book, credit, debit, carry over, take stock, balance accounts, make up accounts, square accounts, settle accounts, wind up accounts, cast up accounts, make accounts square, square accounts, bring to book, tax, surcharge and falsify, audit, field audit, check the books, verify accounts, falsify an account, garble an account, cook an account, cook the books, doctor an account.