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: a card like a credit card by which money may be withdrawn or the cost of purchases paid directly from the holder's bank account without the payment of interest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

Recent Examples on the Web

Express Pay sends your money to a debit card within 24 hours of completing a shift. —Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025

The best way to avoid falling victim to a skimming operation is to check any point-of-sale terminal before inserting your credit or debit card. —Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025

Additionally, withdrawals via debit cards, e-wallets and prepaid cards are the quickest. —Matthew Gover, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025

Thus, a firm formed in 2018 was legally authorized to join a 2021 lawsuit challenging a Federal Reserve rule on bank debit card fees that was finalized in 2011 – a full decade earlier. —Alden Abbott, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

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: a card like a credit card but by which money is withdrawn from the holder's bank account immediately at the time of a transaction (as a purchase)