overdraft

overdraft

English

Alternative forms

• overdraught (UK)

Etymology

over- +‎ draft

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvədɹɑːft/
• (US) enPR: ō'vərdrăft, IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvɚdɹæft/
• Homophone: overdraught

Noun

overdraft (countable and uncountable, plural overdrafts)

1. (uncountable) The act of overdrawing a bank account.
2. (countable) The amount overdrawn.

   I have an overdraft of £1234.

3. (countable) The maximum amount that may be overdrawn.

   The bank have given me an overdraft of $2000.

4. The extraction of groundwater from an aquifer beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.
5. A series of flues in a furnace; the current of air forced through them.

Related terms

• overdraw
• overdrawn

Translations

act of overdrawing a bank account

Finnish: tilinylitys French: découvert (fr) m Greek: υπερανάληψη (el) f (yperanálipsi) Hungarian: hiteltúllépés (hu) Icelandic: yfirdráttur m Italian: scoperto (it)

Maori: tarepatanga Norwegian: overtrekk n Portuguese: saque a descoberto m Serbo-Croatian: ulazak u minus m, prekoračenje po računu n Spanish: sobregiro (es) m Swedish: övertrassering c

amount overdrawn

Finnish: tilinylitys French: découvert (fr) m Maori: tarepa, moni tarepa, kaute tarepa

Serbo-Croatian: prekoračenje (sh) n, minus (sh) m Swedish: övertrassering c

maximum amount that may be overdrawn

Finnish: luottoraja (fi) Greek: όριο υπερανάληψης n (ório yperanálipsis)

Serbo-Croatian: dopušteno prekoračenje po računu n Slovene: limit m

series of flues in a furnace

Verb

overdraft (third-person singular simple present overdrafts, present participle overdrafting, simple past and past participle overdrafted)

1. (transitive) To extract groundwater from (an aquifer) beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.