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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bankcard used to make an electronic withdrawal from funds on deposit in a bank, as in purchasing goods or obtaining cash advances.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a small usually plastic card with a magnetic coded number, similar to a credit card, which is used to pay for purchases by the electronic deduction of a sum of money (a debit) directly from the card-holder's bank account. Such cards do not require the establishment of a credit line, and such transactions do not incur any interest payments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A card much like a
credit card , but which takes money directly from thebank account , rather than borrowing the money from theissuer of the card.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a card (usually plastic) that enables the holder to withdraw money or to have the cost of purchases charged directly to the holder's bank account
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