charges vs debit

charges

debit

adj
  • of or relating to process of taking money from an account 

  • of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function 

verb
  • To record a receivable in the bookkeeping. 

  • To make an entry on the debit side of an account. 

noun
  • In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account. 

  • A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer. 

How often have the words charges and debit occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )