different between obligation vs debit

English

Etymology

From Middle English obligacioun, from Old French obligacion, from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from obligatum (past participle of obligare), from ob- (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley?- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b.l???e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

obligation (countable and uncountable, plural obligations)

1. The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
2. A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
3. A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
4. (law) A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
   • 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575

     The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "obligation": moral, legal, social, contractual, political, mutual, military, perpetual, etc.

Synonyms

• (the act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone): commitment
• (requirement, duty, contract or promise): duty

Antonyms

• (requirement, duty, contract or promise): right

Related terms

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from the verb oblig? (“tie together”).

Pronunciation

Noun

obligation f (plural obligations)

1. obligation

Related terms

• obliger

Further reading

• “obligation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

obligation

1. Alternative form of obligacioun

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