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[ card system is a type of retail transaction settlement and credit system, named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system. A credit card is different from a debit card in that the credit card issuer lends the consumer money rather than having the money removed from an account. It is also different from a charge card (though this name is often used to describe credit cards by the public) in that charge cards do not extend the user credit -- the charges must be paid each month in full. In contrast, a credit card allows the consumer to 'revolve' their balance, at the cost of having interest charged. Most credit cards are the same shape and size, as specified by the ISO 7810 standard. See more at Wikipedia.org...]

[ is an accounting and bookkeeping term that comes from the Latin word debere which means "left". The opposite of a debit is a credit. Debit is abbreviated Dr while credit is abbreviated Cr.A debit changes the balance of an account. Asset and expense accounts increase in value when debited, whereas liability, capital, and revenue accounts decrease in value when debited. This distinction is somewhat counterintuitive, until the nature of those accounts is more closely scrutinized. For example, revenue is coded as a credit. After recording a day's sales, the company will have credited a certain amount in revenue, and since credits are negative numbers, the balance grows more and more negative (further away from zero on the number line in the negative direction). An adjustment to revenue would need to be a debit, because its purpose is to bring the revenue totals closer to zero. See more at Wikipedia.org...]

>Alternative meanings: mini (with lower-case 'm') is also colloquial for miniskirt and, less commonly, for miniature figure. This article is about the car company. The Mini is the name of a small car produced from 1959 to 2000, and the name of its replacement (known as New MINI) launched in 2001. See more at Wikipedia.org...