0 an arrangement for making payments, usually to an organization, in which your bank moves money from your account into the organization's account at regular times:
I pay my electricity bill by direct debit.
1 an instruction to your bank to allow someone else to take money from your account, usually as part of a regular arrangement:
Under direct debit mandates, the person who gives the authority can vary the order, but the courts should have that power.
To date, over £300 million has been collected from the self-employed through the monthly direct debit facility and the quarterly collection method.
We have issued guidance to local authorities on the use of direct debit in our practice note on collection of the community charge.
Ideally, customers will pay by direct debit but a weekly or fortnightly cash facility will be available via post offices.
If you want to buy an item—perhaps to replace a bed or cooker—by instalments, you cannot use direct debit.
Such people are excluded from the benefits of paying bills by direct debit and enjoying reductions.
With the increased use of standing orders and direct debit mandates for paying regularly recurring charges, the form has become redundant.
I can confirm that a student who borrowed from more than one loan provider would indeed have more than one direct debit.
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