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debit card
noun
: a card like a credit card by which money may be withdrawn or the cost of purchases paid directly from the holder's bank account without the payment of interest
Examples of debit card in a Sentence
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Mastercard’s update comes as its major competitor, Visa Inc., also looks for ways to make consumers discard the 16-digit credit and debit card number.
—Ken Sweet, Fortune, 22 May 2024
Visa is still the world’s largest credit card issuer, with 4.3 billion cards globally, and has more than 2.9 billion debit cards in circulation worldwide.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 16 May 2024
Lawal also had more than 300 unique Green Dot Bank debit cards in his home when officers searched it on June 21, 2023.
—Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
By comparison, most credit and debit cards issued by banks now have chips, which function as tiny computers that use encryption to protect account information.
—Jessica Fu, New York Times, 4 May 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1975, in the meaning defined above
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“Debit card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/debit%20card. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
debit card
noun
: a card like a credit card but by which money is withdrawn from the holder's bank account immediately at the time of a transaction (as a purchase)
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