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EFT

The origin and history of EFT.

Etymology

In the banking sense an initialism of electronic funds transfer. The amphibian sense is a separate and much older word, Old English efeta; 'newt' developed from it when 'an ewt' was misheard as 'a newt'.

Origin: English

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