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noun the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future
noun a certificate or voucher acknowledging a debt
originFrom earlier debentur, from Latin debentur (“they are owing”), supposedly the first word of such a document in early times. The ending was apparently influenced by words in -(t)ure.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0