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: a card like a credit card by which money may be withdrawn or the cost of purchases paid directly from the holder's bank account without the payment of interest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

Ticketmaster will put a $1 temporary hold on a credit or debit card with the request and will be refunded. —Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026

Bristol West offers the option to pay by credit card, debit card, or check. —Liz Knueven, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026

Bank records obtained by CBS 12, through a subpoena, show that Kaiser was allegedly captured on surveillance footage at a JPMorgan Chase branch handing a check falsely attributed to the museum to a teller and then completing the transaction with her debit card. —Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 20 Apr. 2026

The lawsuit, which was filed in 2020, alleges that Trader Joe's violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) by printing 10 digits of customers' credit and debit card numbers on its receipts—most credit cards have 16 digits. —Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 20 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for debit card

• bodyguard
• boulevard
• disregard
• asgard
• backyard
• barnyard
• blackguard
• bombard
• brickyard
• canard
• churchyard
• coastguard

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: a card like a credit card but by which money is withdrawn from the holder's bank account immediately at the time of a transaction (as a purchase)