overdraft

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The amount overdrawn.

   I have an overdraft of £1234.

2. 2
   noun

   The maximum amount that may be overdrawn.

   The bank have given me an overdraft of $2000.

3. 3
   noun

   a draft in excess of the credit balance

4. 4
   noun

   The act of overdrawing a bank account.

5. 5
   noun

   The extraction of groundwater from an aquifer beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.

6. 6
   noun

   A series of flues in a furnace; the current of air forced through them.

7. 7
   verb

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

Etymology

From over- + draft.