Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a card (usually plastic) that enables the holder to withdraw money or to have the cost of purchases charged directly to the holder's bank account;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Debit card \Deb"it card`\, n. [See debit.]
a small usually plastic card with a magnetic coded number,
similar to a credit card, which is used to pay for purchases
by the electronic deduction of a sum of money (a debit)
directly from the card-holder's bank account. Such cards do
not require the establishment of a credit line, and such
transactions do not incur any interest payments.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
debit card
n 1: a card (usually plastic) that enables the holder to
withdraw money or to have the cost of purchases charged
directly to the holder's bank account