What's the difference between debit and visa?

Debit


Definition:

  • (n.) A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.
  • (v. t.) To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.
  • (v. t.) To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The debit card doubles as a Clubcard, and customers will be able to earn points wherever they use it.
  • (2) Target’s data breach in 2013 exposed details of as many as 40m credit and debit card accounts and hurt its holiday sales that year.
  • (3) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
  • (4) It comes with a full banking service including a cash card but no debit card, chequebook or overdraft.
  • (5) CPAs are similar to direct debits in that they enable a company to control the size and frequency of payments from the customer's account.
  • (6) The Tesco Bank current account offers 3% interest on credit balances, Clubcard points on all debit card spending, and a "simple and transparent" fees and charges structure.
  • (7) JD, Oxford More than three months to get a replacement debit card is ridiculous, and we agree that you have been more than patient.
  • (8) Hours after Greece’s bailout programme with its creditors expired and the country became the first in the developed world to miss an IMF loan repayment, Greek pensioners without debit cards were at last able to withdraw some cash.
  • (9) The second debit sent him overdrawn leaving him unable to access any funds.
  • (10) In 2014, hackers stole information on an estimated 56 million debit and credit card customers from Home Depot .
  • (11) Pay by direct debit This can save consumers up to 10% or about £100 a year, according to Citizens Advice .
  • (12) As part of an ongoing investigation into credit brokers, the company was found to have used high-pressure sales tactics to persuade consumers to provide their debit or credit card details on the false premise that they were needed for an identity or security check.
  • (13) The £5 a month is to ensure that customers do not face further banking charges when payments are returned unpaid for direct debits and standing orders.
  • (14) The average debit card was used to make 94 purchases in 2013, with the total amount spent per card typically coming in at just over £4,000.
  • (15) However, hyperimmunoglobulinemia tends to show elevated hydrochloric acid debit.
  • (16) As students across Britain began closing accounts at the bank, HSBC reacted by freezing interest on overdrafts Letter chain Millions of template letters downloaded from internet sites - including theguardian.com - forced the banks into this week's court case to clarify the legal basis of charges such as those for bounced cheques and direct debits.
  • (17) He said he was considering requiring energy companies to put some direct debit customers on low tariffs with a customer's right to opt out.
  • (18) Allowing tenants to set the date the direct debit leaves their account also boosts take-up.
  • (19) The results point out that the phase of cell-specific function is distinctly lengthened to the debit of a reduced rate of mitosis.
  • (20) Choose an online tariff Scottish Power, British Gas and npower are among the providers which offer their best deals to customers willing to pay by direct debit and manage their account online.

Visa


Definition:

  • (n.) See Vis/.
  • (v. t.) To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (2) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (3) It is understood that Labor, the Greens and the crossbench will seek to remove many of these additional measures, leaving the bill focused on the visa issue.
  • (4) And they face the criminal penalty and administratively their visa is cancelled.
  • (5) The websites of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal were brought down; so too the Swedish government's.
  • (6) (Incidentally, Australia had just revoked Blanc’s visa).
  • (7) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
  • (8) A similar visa program for Afghans who aided troops was enacted in 2009 and offered up to 8,500 visas .
  • (9) Government ministers and officials are distressed that the home secretary's resignation has failed to stem the tide of fresh allegation and counter allegation between the protaganists and a number of potentially damaging questions still hang over the visa affair.
  • (10) And there are consequences for the more than 30,000 asylum seekers already here, whom the Coalition says will never get permanent visas and who, at the moment, are being denied any visas or work rights or certainty because of a political standoff over the Coalition’s policy to give them “temporary protection visas” instead.
  • (11) She feared her chances of being offered a place would be diminished by a Brexit vote, and the practical considerations like a visa and funding would be more of an obstacle.
  • (12) About 2,200 Syrians were granted offshore humanitarian visas to Australia in 2014-15, up from 1,007 the previous year.
  • (13) With 66,000 signatures on a petition after four days, immigration minister Peter Dutton cancelled Allen’s visa.
  • (14) Demonstrations are planned in the capitals of Spain, the Netherlands, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico and Peru to demand Assange's release, the re-establishment of the WikiLeaks domain name and the restoration of Visa and Mastercard credit services to allow supporters to donate money to the whistleblowing site.
  • (15) It is understood that some labour agents pay kafeels as much as $500 per visa, in effect a kickback from the fee the labour agent charges the worker for their visa, which the worker raises by borrowing or selling assets in their home country.
  • (16) The American photographer Alec Soth was told he could risk two years in prison if he took any photos in the UK without a work visa.
  • (17) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
  • (18) Once this visa had been received, the parents took their new babies home – to Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, Japan, the US.
  • (19) Germany and France have adopted a joint position, criticising but not rejecting the commission’s quota scheme while setting conditions such as the freezing of visa waiver schemes for the countries of the Balkans, and insisting that Italy fingerprint and register all new arrivals to keep them from travelling north to other EU countries.
  • (20) Childs said Castro told him Oswald "stormed into the embassy, demanded the visa, and when it was refused to him headed out saying, 'I'm going to kill Kennedy for this'."