The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DEBIT
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result DEBIT
- Teaching graduate recalled it in a change to account
- Money taken from account: plot to return it
- Amount owed: one less makes no difference
- Charge from sex channel, turned over first
- Cryptically take a little sum out of a bank account?
- What could get one overdrawn?
- Left-side entry made by old-fashioned socialite with sex appeal
- Charge one coming out on appeal
- She used to come out with it in entry on left
- Little lady with oomph is no credit
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The straight part
We know that "entry on left" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case entry on left = debit.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does DEBIT mean?
DEBIT noun- In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
- A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.
- To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
- To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.
- Of or relating to process of taking money from an account
- Of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function