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Debited vs Debted - What's the difference?

debited | debted |

As a verb debited

is (debit).

As an adjective debted is

indebted; under obligation.

debited

English

Verb

(head)
  • (debit)

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    debit

    English

    (wikipedia debit)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
    • A cash sale is recorded as debit on the cash account and as credit on the sales 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.

    • Derived terms

    * debit card

    Related terms

    * debt * debitor * debenture

    See also

    * credit

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
  • To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.
    • ''We shall debit your account for the amount of the purchase.
    We shall debit the amount of your purchase to your account.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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

    • Antonyms

    * credit

    Derived terms

    * debit card

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    debted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • indebted; under obligation
    • I stand debted to this gentleman. — Shakespeare.
    (Webster 1913)