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debit card

A payment card in the physical format of a credit card that is used like a bank check. There is no line of credit, and sufficient funds must be available in the customer's bank account, which are withdrawn immediately or within a couple of days, depending on the system. Debit cards are used at ATM machines and point-of-sale terminals in retail outlets. To prevent fraud, a numeric PIN must be entered. If the merchant supports it, cash may be paid to the customer. See debit.
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Foreign currency, travellers cheques and the new American Express Travellers Cheque Card can be ordered up to the value of pounds 3,000.
But it was in the days when a cheque card only guaranteed something like pounds 25, and the garage man had no intention of taking a foolish youth's background on trust.
Two women, possibly a mother and daughter, used forged cheques and a stolen cheque card to buy goods from a furniture store.
As well as a cheque card from the now defunct Midland Bank, it contained 12 pence in change, and photo ID with a black and white passport photo.
Miss Owen is also blieved to be suspected of a pounds 250,000 credit card and cheque card fraud.
In the UK, the first cheque card was launched in 1965 to guarantee cheques up to pounds 30.
The group is also offering the new American Express Travellers Cheque Card, which can be loaded with foreign currency in the UK and used like a debit card abroad.
The cashier wanted a cheque card, a passport, a specimen of water, a temporary address, a blood group.
Pausing only to scan these queues to ensure that a swift exit is not delayed by that student fruitlessly trying to pay for a can of beans, packet of Peak Freans and a toilet roll with a cheque - but paradoxically no cheque card.
On February 15 Gaynor, who has a prominent scar on his left cheek, reported to police that he had lost a brown leather jacket containing a cheque book, cheque card and pounds 200 in cash in Belfast City Centre.
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