透支
Traditional form:
透支
Pinyin (reading):
tòuzhī
Definitions:
- (banking) to overdraw
- to take out an overdraft
- an overdraft
- to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue)
- (old) to draw one's wage in advance
- (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc)
- to damage a natural resource through overuse
Characters:
- 透 - to pierce, to penetrate, to pass through; thorough
- 支 - to support, to sustain; to withdraw, to pay; a branch (of a bank)
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