Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

DR

English answer:

Debit Record

Added to glossary by Natalya Zelikova
Dec 9, 2005 11:55
18 yrs ago
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English term

DR

English Bus/Financial Finance (general)
Amount of rent owed: [symbol of pounds sterling] xxx.xxDR
What exactly this DR means?

Thank you in advance.
Change log

Dec 9, 2005 12:04: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Bus/Financial"

Responses

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Debit Record

One of the expansions for DR given in Acronym Finder is Debit Record. Maybe that's it.
Peer comment(s):

agree Nikos Mastrakoulis
33 mins
Thank you.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you. You all helped me a lot, but I see this answer as more explanatory."
8 mins

Debtor

Possibly
Peer comment(s):

neutral John Bowden : I don't think it's the debtor (person) , but the amount owing (debit amount)
12 mins
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+6
12 mins

debit

just a guess
Peer comment(s):

agree Dave Calderhead : I was busy trying to find the right reference while you posted your guess (:-{)>
4 mins
Thanks Dave! I guess you deserve an agree as well.
agree John Bowden : Yes, I think so - I have lots of experience of being in debt!
7 mins
Thanks! I hope you're not in debt anymore!
agree urst : probably (DR: debit; CR: credit)
9 mins
Thanks!
agree silvia b (X)
2 hrs
Grazie!
agree Alfa Trans (X)
3 hrs
Thanks
agree marybro
9 hrs
Thanks
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+3
15 mins

debit

Principles of accounting
Bestandsformaat: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - HTML-versie
double-entry bookkeeping, which records both the debit (DR) and credit ...
www.londonexternal.ac.uk/.../programme_resources/ lse/lse_pdf/foundation_units/prin_acc/prinacc_complete.pdf
Peer comment(s):

agree John Bowden : We all seem to have had the same idea - the result of a lifetime of debt??
3 mins
Thanks, John (:-{)> How did you guess - the credit card generation?
agree Ziad Marzouka
9 mins
Thanks, Ziad (:-{)>
agree Romanian Translator (X)
3 days 13 hrs
Thanks (:-{)>
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18 mins

Overdrawn/debit?

On UK bank statements, DR indicates that the account is "in the red" - loan statements also frequently show the sum outstanding/owing as £ xxx DR (as opposed to CR - in credit)

HTH
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