Debit vs Duty - What's the difference?
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In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.
To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.
of or relating to process of taking money from an account
of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function {as used by US Postal Service, Walmart, and other payees
That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
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*1805 , 21 October,
*:England expects that every man will do his duty .
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty , cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= A period of time spent at work or doing a particular task.
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Describing a workload as to its idle, working and de-energized periods.
A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
(lb) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) XX:
*:Take that which is thy duty , and goo thy waye.
(lb) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my duty to you
The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
Debit is a related term of duty.
As a noun debit
is flow, rate of flow.As an adjective duty is
hollow (having an empty space inside).debit
English
(wikipedia debit)Noun
(en noun)- A cash sale is recorded as debit on the cash account and as credit on the sales account.
Derived terms
* debit cardSee also
* creditVerb
(en verb)- ''We shall debit your account for the amount of the purchase.
- We shall debit the amount of your purchase to your account.
Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* creditDerived terms
* debit cardExternal links
* *Anagrams
*duty
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Noun
(duties)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}