| Main Entry: | debit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entry |
Synonyms: |
account, accounts, amount due, arrears, bills, charge, collectible, debt, deficit, indebtedness, liability, obligation |
Antonyms: |
credit, settlement, tally |
| Main Entry: | arrears |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debt |
Synonyms: |
back payment, balance due, claim, debit, deficiency, deficit, liability, obligation, unpaid bill |
| Main Entry: | bill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | charge money for goods, services |
Synonyms: |
bone, chase, debit, draw upon, dun, figure, invoice, put the arm on, put the bite on, put the squeeze on, reckon, record, render, solicit |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pay with credit card |
Synonyms: |
book, buy on credit, chalk up, cuff, debit, encumber, go into hock, incur debt, nick, paste, put on account, put on one's card, put on the cuff, put on the tab, receive credit, run up |
Antonyms: |
pay by check, pay cash |
| Main Entry: | debt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money owed to others |
Synonyms: |
IOU, albatross, arrearage, arrears, bad news, baggage, below the line, bill, bite*, capital, check, chit, claim, commitment, credit, cuff, damage*, dead horse, debenture, debit, deficit, due, dues, duty, encumbrance, in hock, in the hole, in the red, indebtedness, invoice, liability, manifest, mortgage, note, obligation, outstandings, price tag, promissory note, receipt, reckoning, red ink, responsibility, score, tab, tally, voucher |
Antonyms: |
asset, cash, credit, excess, profit |
| Main Entry: | dues |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment for membership |
Synonyms: |
ante, arrearage, assessment, charge, charges, collection, contribution, custom, debit, debt, duty, fee, kickback, levy, liability, obligation, pay, protection, rates, tax, toll |
| Main Entry: | expense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cost, payment |
Synonyms: |
amount, assessment, bite*, bottom line, budget, charge, consumption, debit, debt, decrement, deprivation, disbursement, duty, expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, insurance, investment, liability, loan, loss, mortgage, obligation, out of pocket, outdo, outlay, output, overhead, payroll, price, price tag, rate, responsibility, risk, sacrifice, spending, sum, surcharge, tariff, toll, upkeep, use, value, worth |
| Notes: | expenditure refers to an actual outlay of money or goods, whereas expense has a more general sense, a charge or cost of goods or property; we have expenses, but we make expenditures |
| Main Entry: | liability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden, debt |
Synonyms: |
IOU, account, arrear, arrearage, bad news, baggage, balance, bite*, chance, chit, contingency, contract, damage, debit, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, due*, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, indebtedness, indebtment, involvement, lease, loan, millstone, minus, misfortune, mortgage, nuisance, obligation, onus, pledge, possibility, remainder, responsibility, tab |
Antonyms: |
asset |
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
Synonyms: |
accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, dispossession, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, mislaying, misplacing, need, perdition, privation, retardation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, squandering, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage |
Antonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | obligation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
Synonyms: |
IOU, accountability, accountableness, agreement, bond, burden, business, call, cause, charge, chit, commitment, committal, compulsion, conscience, constraint, contract, debit, debt, devoir, due bill, dues, duty, engagement, liability, must, necessity, need, occasion, onus, ought, part, place, promise, requirement, restraint, right, trust, understanding |