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DEBIT CARD
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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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