overdraft.
The act of overdrawing a bank account.
Meaning & usage
The act of overdrawing a bank account.
The amount overdrawn.
I have an overdraft of £1234.
The maximum amount that may be overdrawn.
The bank have given me an overdraft of $2000.
The extraction of groundwater from an aquifer beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.
A series of flues in a furnace; the current of air forced through them.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English draft English overdraft From over- + draft.
To extract groundwater from (an aquifer) beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English draft English overdraft From over- + draft.
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