DEBIT CARD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A card (usually plastic) that enables the holder to withdraw money or to have the cost of purchases charged directly to the holder's bank account

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("debit card" is a kind of...):

positive identification (evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance)

charge account credit; open-end credit; revolving credit (a consumer credit line that can be used up to a certain limit or paid down at any time)

Meronyms (parts of "debit card"):

magnetic stripe (a short strip of magnetic tape attached to a credit card or debit card; it contains data that will tell a reading device who you are and what your account number is, etc.)

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