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Credit   /krˈɛdət/  /krˈɛdɪt/   Listen
Credit

noun
1.
Approval.  Synonym: recognition.  "He was given credit for his work" , "Give her credit for trying"
2.
Money available for a client to borrow.
3.
An accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items.  Synonym: credit entry.  Antonym: debit.
4.
Used in the phrase 'to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise.
5.
Arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services.  Synonym: deferred payment.  Antonym: cash.
6.
Recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours.  Synonym: course credit.
7.
A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage.  Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, mention, quotation, reference.  "The acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book" , "The article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
8.
An entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work.
9.
An estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments.  Synonym: credit rating.
verb
(past & past part. credited; pres. part. crediting)
1.
Give someone credit for something.
2.
Ascribe an achievement to.  Synonym: accredit.
3.
Accounting: enter as credit.  Antonym: debit.
4.
Have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of.



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"Credit" Quotes from Famous Books



... many counterfets and allies. There are many strange fires which having sought to carry away the credit of it, have brought in an ill name upon it: from these it would ...
— A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale - In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich • Samuel Ward
... tale. The air was filled with indefinite promise of a new era for mankind to be inaugurated by this amiable young king, whose kindness of heart shone forth in his first speech, "We will have no more loans, no credit, no fresh burdens on the people;" then, leaving his ministers to devise ways of paying the enormous salaries of officials out of an empty treasury, and to arrange the financial details of his benevolent scheme ...
— A Short History of France • Mary Platt Parmele
... Chatterton, more than a year later, committed suicide there were not wanting a great many persons absurd enough to accuse Walpole of having driven him to his death—a contemptible suggestion. Yet the connoisseur's credit certainly suffers from the fact that he gave currency to a false account of the transaction in the hope of ...
— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton
... outward appearance only, few would have given Villiers credit for being the man of penetrative and almost classic refinement he really was,—he looked far more athletic than aesthetic. Broad-shouldered and deep-chested, with a round, blunt head firmly set on a full, strong throat, he had, on the whole, a somewhat obstinate and pugilistic air which totally ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli
... in the greeting. But I want to lecture my father; he is not grateful enough; he is like Fanny; his resignation is not the 'true blue.' A man who has gained a stone; whose son is better, and, after so many fears to the contrary, I dare to say, a credit to him; whose business is arranged; whose marriage is a picture - what I should call resignation in such a case as his would be to 'take down his fiddle and play as lood as ever he could.' That and nought else. And now, you dear old pious ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson


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