chit
Informal payment note
A chit is a short written note, especially one serving as a receipt, voucher, or record of a debt: Sign the chit and we'll settle up later.
The word appears in phrases like chit system for informal credit arrangements.
Separately, chit is a slightly old-fashioned or dismissive term for a young woman or girl: a mere chit of a thing.
Minor error or misstep
- memoBrief internal message
- noteShort written record
- voucherRedeemable certificate for value
- tabProjection for gripping
receipt · ticket · token · paper · docket · tally · counterfoil · stub
Written debt acknowledgment
- tabProjection for gripping
- accountRecord of dealings
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
- debitSubtraction from account
owing · marker · advance · loan · balance · outstanding · settlement · reimbursement
Discharge or capture
- seedlingRecently sprouted young plant
- budUnopened plant growth
- sproutNew plant emergence
- cuttingDividing via sharp edge
slip · offshoot · germination · propagation · nursery · sapling
Young female person
- young womanFemale youth
- lassYouthful female
- missFail to reach
- youngsterPerson of tender years
impertinent · impudent · sassy
State of sentient awareness
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- BrahmanSupreme cosmic reality
- VedantaHindu philosophy of ultimate reality
- self-realizationAchieving personal potential
witness · atman · non-duality · Upanishads · being · bliss
slip
Minor error or misstep
tab · receipt · ticket · token · paper · docket · tally · counterfoil · stub · marker
IOU
Written debt acknowledgment
debit · owing · marker · advance · loan · balance · outstanding · settlement · reimbursement · payment
shoot
Discharge or capture
cutting · slip · offshoot · germination · propagation · nursery · sapling
girl
Young female person
- young womanFemale youth
- lassYouthful female
- missFail to reach
youngster · impertinent · impudent · sassy
consciousness
State of sentient awareness
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- BrahmanSupreme cosmic reality
- VedantaHindu philosophy of ultimate reality
self-realization · witness · atman · non-duality · Upanishads · being · bliss
- written notesnote, memo, jotting, scribble, reminder
- Anglo-Indiansahib, memsahib, wallah, pukka, raj
- restaurant lingoeighty-six, in the weeds, on the fly, all day, heard
- informal creditIOU, tab, marker, bar tab, promissory note
- Sanskrit rootsgam, vid, vac, man, da
- paper goodspaper, notebook, notecard, stationery, letterhead
chitformal contract
Legally enforceable written agreement
legal document · contract · formal agreement · binding agreement · deed
chitancestor
Predecessor in lineage
progenitor · forebear · forerunner · forefather · foremother
- chit chatCasual, trivial conversation