Distinguished men drew up a debit and credit of the happiness and unhappiness of their lives, and generally found that the latter outweighed the former.
Fleets, armies, political power and influence fall under the debit and credit of a trader's ledger.
Like a merchant, he set about examining his debitand credit, which, for that matter, was not difficult.
He had doubtless yielded to strong compulsion when driven into a corner from which, for one of his nature, there was no escape, and now that he was dead, I had transferred my score against him to the debit of the usurer.
Omitting other details, the dated entries, arranged indebit and credit fashion, told the whole story.
To whose account is he to debit the broken jugs and the torn pillows?
On the debit side, however, there are enough entries to make the cashier wonder whether, or no, the account is overdrawn.
There are certainly a large number of entries on the debit side of the ledger.
I see that each line in the account contains bothdebit and credit entries?
I wish them to call the boats their own, and I do not debit them with the price, but it is charged in a separate account to the crew.
Each knitter has an account current with the firm, the debit side of which contains the amount of the goods and worsted furnished, the credit side the amount of articles of hosiery returned, and the sum allowed for each.
There is double money column which shows both the credit and debit on the same side.
Of course if she gets worsted from our shop we have to debit her with it, and see that she returns it.
In the case of the properties of which you are tacksman or proprietor, the rent, I presume, goes into the debitside of the man's account?
The boat is charged to that account; and when they settle, there are two-thirds carried down to the debit of each man, and the rest is paid up.
Have they had the effect of reducing the amount of debitagainst the men in the agents' books?
Yes, but there are two money columns at the end, and the entries are carried out to them according as they are debit or credit.
When that comes to be paid out of the share of a man who has an individual account, is his share of what remains due on the boat generally entered to his debit in his own account each year?
Turning from the debit to the credit side of the account between the curer and the fisherman, the most important branch of the latter is the price of the fish.
These supplies are all entered to the man's debit in your book?
I have the account which was sent to me, in which the total amount of the shop account is entered to my debit (£9, 13s.
On the debit side appeared the following items: April 22.
And the debit and the credit are as one to him and me!
When we look at the record of the past year, 1951, we find important things on both the credit and the debit side of the ledger.
The outstanding fact to note on the debit side of the ledger is that the Soviet Union, in 1951, continued to expand its military production and increase its already excessive military power.
Now, I must turn to the debitside of the ledger for the past year.
We know that every moral debit must be worked off and turned into a credit by the sinner, however many lives of suffering it takes to do it.
Now this Oscarovitch has sinned grievously, not only in this life but in many others, and I am going to see that he works off at least some of his debit as you put it somewhat commercially.
As fast as these footings are completed, they are sent to the proof clerk, who puts them in the debit column opposite the credits of the banks, respectively.
When all are completed, if no error has been made, the footings of the credit and debit columns must be exactly equal and the footings of the two other columns, which show the differences, must be exactly equal.
Our sentiments are not always to be reckoned by debit and credit.
See, (picking up the papers again) the total debit is three hundred and eighty thousand.
Goulard I shall add that along with all that you owe me to the debit of your account-- Mercadet Thank you.
With the credit entry fading, the debit entry loomed up bigger.
The end of empire was commercial profit; the means, the political subordination of the colonies; the debit entry, the cost of the military and naval and diplomatic services borne by the mother country.
Debit and Credit' is a novel of the century, and it takes up the great problem of the century, the position of modern industrialism in the social life of the day.
In this second novel Freytag displays a most genial humor, unsuspected in the author of 'Debit and Credit,' but apparent enough in 'The Journalists.
There are thirty-five items on the debit side of the ledger and a few little ones on the credit side.
All I wish to do further is to give a brief synopsis of the debit and credit accounts for each of the succeeding four years.
But first I must add a few items to the debit account.
He talked for a little while with the unknown hacker on Altos, and then gave him one of the debit cards taken from his visits to the CitiSaudi computer.
These were debit cards, and they were held by very rich Arabs.
The carder had unwittingly chosen a debit card belonging to a senior Saudi bank executive who happened to be in his office at the time the flower order was placed.
The Clearing-house gives tickets of debit or credit to all the banks, and the debit ones must pay in lawful money before half-past one, and the credit ones will get their due from the manager immediately after.
In fact, by means of its bank the community had everyone's income in hand sooner than the earners themselves; and it was merely necessary to debit the earners with the amount and the tax was paid.
The existing debit and credit relations of private individuals remain intact, except that the debtor shall have the right of immediate repayment of the borrowed capital, whatever may have been the terms originally agreed upon.
A 'clearing system,' which really included everything, made these numberless debit and credit operations possible with scarcely any employment of actual money, but simply by additions to and subtractions from the accounts in the books.
On the whole, then, so far as mental effect goes, I believe the balance must come out on the debit side.
Then there is the matter of venereal disease, which the conditions of military life are carefully fostering--no negligible factor on the debit side; the health of many hundreds must be written off on that score.
Do you believe that about yourself, my friend, that the debit side of your account has filled all the page and has to be carried forward on to another?
Debit us with as many imperfections and inconsistencies as you like, do not lay them to the charge of Christ.
It would be easy to pile up items on the debit side of our imaginary cash-book.
Although few Khátaks (customers) were able to extricate their property from his clutches or clear off their debit balances, Chandra Babu continued to be in great request.
Let's put down the debit and credit of the establishment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "debit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
