overdraft

noun/ˈoʊvərˌdræft/

Frequency rank: #15,187 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

A deficit in a bank account caused by withdrawing more money than the account holds.

Illustration for the English word “overdraft”

Example sentence

She checked her bank account and discovered that her spending had caused a large overdraft last month.

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