overdraft
The act of overdrawing a bank accountThe act of overdrawing a bank account.
» Did you ever get that bank overdraft sorted out?
Meaning
5 senses(uncountable)The act of overdrawing a bank account.
Überziehung
(countable)The amount overdrawn.
I have an overdraft of £1234.
Dispositionskredit, Überziehungskredit
(countable)The maximum amount that may be overdrawn.
The bank have given me an overdraft of $2000.
Dispositionsrahmen, Überziehungsgrenze
(countable, uncountable)The extraction of groundwater from an aquifer beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.
(countable, uncountable)A series of flues in a furnace; the current of air forced through them.
- a draft in excess of the credit balance
Examples
3 sentencesDid you ever get that bank overdraft sorted out?
I don't want to end up having to pay an overdraft fee.
Am I responsible for overdraft fees even though the bank made a mistake?
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 3
Forms
plural: overdraftsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable