different between debit vs responsibility

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French debet, from Latin debitum (“what is owed, a debt”), neuter of debitus, past participle of debere (“to owe”); Doublet of debt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?b.?t/
• Rhymes: -?b?t

Noun

debit (countable and uncountable, plural debits)

1. 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.

2. 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

Translations

See also

• credit

Verb

debit (third-person singular simple present debits, present participle debiting, simple past and past participle debited)

1. To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
2. To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.

Translations

Adjective

debit (not comparable)

1. of or relating to process of taking money from an account
2. of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

• credit

Derived terms

• debit card

Translations

Further reading

• debit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• debit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• betid, bidet, bited

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?deb?t?]
• Hyphenation: dé?bit

Etymology 1

• From English debit, from Middle French debet (Modern French débit), from Latin d?bitum (“what is owed, a debt”).
• Displaced earlier debet, which was loanword from Dutch debet.

Noun

debit (first-person possessive debitku, second-person possessive debitmu, third-person possessive debitnya)

1. (accounting) debit:
   1. In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
   2. 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.
2. (accounting) receivable: a debt owed, usually to a business, from the perspective of that business.

   Synonym: piutang

Alternative forms

• debet

Affixed terms

Compounds

Related terms

Etymology 2

Semantic loan from Dutch debiet (“discharge, flowrate”), from French débit (“flow, rate of flow, discharge”), from Latin d?bitum (“what is owed, a debt”).

Noun

debit (first-person possessive debitku, second-person possessive debitmu, third-person possessive debitnya)

1. (hydrology) discharge
2. (of fluid) flowrate

Compounds

Further reading

• “debit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

From French débit.

Noun

debit n (plural debite)

1. debit

Declension

English

Etymology

From responsible +? -ity. Although the components are of French origin, the compound appears to have been formed in English. Later-attested French responsabilité is modeled on the English word, and Italian responsabilità is in turn modeled on the French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sp?ns??b?l??i/

Noun

responsibility (countable and uncountable, plural responsibilities)

1. The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable. [from 18th c.]

   Responsibility is a heavy burden.

2. The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
3. A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.

   Why didn't you clean the house? That was your responsibility!

   The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world - Harry S. Truman

   • 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":

     If parents, teachers, and ministers conducted their responsibilities by following the ratings, children would have a steady diet of ice cream, school holidays, and no Sunday school.

4. (military) The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success.
5. (military) The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual.

Synonyms

• responsibleness (may be considered nonstandard)

Related terms

• see respond

Translations

See also

• accountability

References

• responsibility at OneLook Dictionary Search
• responsibility in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• responsibility in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• responsibility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Responsibility”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VIII, Part 1 (Q–R), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 542, column 2.
• Feltus, C.; Petit, M. (2009). "Building a Responsibility Model Including Accountability, Capability and Commitment", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ), Fukuoka, 2009. Building a Responsibility Model Including Accountability, Capability and Commitment