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Seton vs Setoff - What's the difference?

seton | setoff |

As nouns the difference between seton and setoff

is that seton is seton while setoff is (finance) the situation where a bank or similar organisation repays itself money owed by an accountholder out of his or her account.

seton

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine, agriculture) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Gustave Flaubert, title=Over Strand and Field, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The animal was lean and tall, and had a moth-eaten mane, rough hoofs and loose shoes; a seton bobbed up and down on its breast. }}

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    setoff

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) The situation where a bank or similar organisation repays itself money owed by an accountholder out of his or her account.