overdraft

• overdraught (UK)

From over- + draft.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvədɹɑːft/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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

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.

• daylight overdraft

• overdraw
• overdrawn

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.