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family credit

noun

  1. (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Investigators are looking for last known addresses, their friends and family, credit card usage — anything that might point to where they are, Cangelosi said.

Three lots of Roy family credit cards were auctioned, but they won’t be accepted at your local supermarket.

Bleddyn's family credit the inclusiveness of the gym and coach Simon Roach, a former Commonwealth athlete and trainer, with helping with his and other disabled athletes' development.

From BBC

She maxed out the family credit cards to pay her daughter’s college tuition and took out additional mortgages on her home in Montclair, N.J., the New York City suburb where she ran an acclaimed regional theater for almost 20 years on a shoestring.

She maxed out the family credit cards to pay her daughter’s college tuition and took out additional mortgages on her home in Montclair, N.J., the New York City suburb where she ran an acclaimed regional theater for almost 20 years on a shoestring.

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