'Debit' definitions:
Definition of 'debit'
From: WordNet
noun
An accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing [syn: debit, debit entry] [ant: credit, credit entry]
verb
Enter as debit [ant: credit]
Definition of 'Debit'
From: GCIDE
- Debit \Deb"it\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Debit'
From: GCIDE
- Debit \Deb"it\, v. t. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bookkeeping) To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'debit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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