What is "overdraft"

Usage examples of "overdraft".

Barclay, observing his depression and worming out of the colonel the cause, persuaded General Hendricks to put the overdraft and the second mortgage note into one note for a thousand dollars plus the interest for sixty days until the colonel could make a turn, and after that the colonel was happy again.

I could always raise the overdraft, get some more credit cards and extend our credit with the various store cards that Wendy uses.

PiIasters Bank and found that he had an overdraft of a thousand pounds.

I was asking for a bigger overdraft, trying hard to be nice, but at the same time looking down on me with disdain.

The bank manager even gave them a generous overdraft facility on the understanding that money was coming in soon.

Unless he had the checkbook with him and was still writing checks, the overdrafts most likely had come from some of those automatic deductions.

I could tell him was that I had seen them, but Evans had told me he had had to lodge them with the Banca Espagnol as security for a small overdraft he had requested after opening an account with them.

Holly lived in fairly usual fashion at permanent full stretch of their permitted overdraft, juggling the incoming cheques from the owners with the outgoing expenses of fodder, wages, overheads and taxes.

Money was a problem because I'd spent all the dosh I'd got for the car, and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I'd built up.

My bank charges a service service fee if my account drops below a certain level, and they go berserk with overdraft charges if I screw up and write a few bad checks, but they don't have anything called a depository charge.

It's the month when the first bank statement arrives after Christmas and bank managers decide to cut off your overdraft.

Morgan -- later backed by McAdoo's Treasury -- paid for Britain's overdraft, the United States became the principal creditor nation.

But I knew from the gossip that business like that, in a London theatre, was covering running costs at best, and the expenses of production were still on the Guvnor's overdraft.

Oh, you'd like that, wouldn't you - for me to turn a small debt into a massive great overdraft!

Playing polo for Elmer would have paid off my overdraft and a few bills and I wanted a suntan to wow the Ballenstein typing pool on the first day.