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credit
[ kred-it ]
noun
- commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.:
The charity deserves credit for helping many poor families make ends meet during the recession.
- a source of pride or honor:
You are a credit to your school.
- the ascription or acknowledgment of something as due or properly attributable to a person, institution, etc.:
He got credit for research actually done by his colleague.
It is always best to give credit where credit’s due.
- Usually credits.
- acknowledgment of a person’s contribution to the making of a movie or television program, typically displayed in a list that scrolls down the screen at the beginning or end:
She got screen credits for photography.
- a similar acknowledgment in a publication:
The paper’s policy is to list credits for theater productions at the end of reviews.
- trustworthiness; credibility:
a witness of credit.
- influence or authority resulting from the confidence of others or from one's reputation.
- favorable repute; reputation; esteem.
- Finance.
- reputation of solvency and honesty, entitling a person or business to be trusted in buying or borrowing:
Your credit is good.
- an agreement to entrust a buyer with goods or services without immediate payment, based on confidence in the buyer’s ability and intention to pay:
She bought the air conditioner on credit with no money down.
- the time allowed for payment of goods or services obtained on trust:
90 days' credit.
- an amount of money that a financial institution lends or makes available to a client, to be repaid typically in monthly installments including interest:
The bank extended the couple credit to finance the remodeling of their home.
- a sum of money due to a person; anything valuable standing on the credit side of an account against which a person may draw:
He has a store credit of $50.
- Education.
- official acceptance and recording of the work completed by a student in a particular course of study.
- one unit of academic credit; a credit hour.
- Bookkeeping.
- an entry of payment or value received on an account.
- the right-hand side of an account on which such entries are made ( debit ).
- an entry, or the total shown, on the credit side.
verb (used with object)
- to believe; put confidence in; have faith in; trust.
- to bring honor, esteem, etc., to; reflect well upon.
- Bookkeeping. to enter upon the credit side of an account; give credit for or to.
- Education. to award educational credits to (often followed by with ):
They credited me with three hours in history.
verb phrase
- to ascribe to a (thing, person, etc.):
In former times many herbs were credited with healing powers.
credit
/ ˈkrɛdɪt /
noun
- commendation or approval, as for an act or quality
she was given credit for her work
- a person or thing serving as a source of good influence, repute, ability, etc
a credit to the team
- the quality of being believable or trustworthy
that statement had credit
- influence or reputation coming from the approval or good opinion of others
he acquired credit within the community
- belief in the truth, reliability, quality, etc, of someone or something
I would give credit to that philosophy
- a sum of money or equivalent purchasing power, as at a shop, available for a person's use
- the positive balance in a person's bank account
- the sum of money that a bank makes available to a client in excess of any deposit
- the practice of permitting a buyer to receive goods or services before payment
- the time permitted for paying for such goods or services
- reputation for solvency and commercial or financial probity, inducing confidence among creditors
- accounting
- acknowledgment of an income, liability, or capital item by entry on the right-hand side of an account
- the right-hand side of an account
- an entry on this side
- the total of such entries
- ( as modifier ) Compare debit
credit entries
- short for tax credit
- education
- a distinction awarded to an examination candidate obtaining good marks
- a section of an examination syllabus satisfactorily completed, as in higher and professional education
- letter of creditan order authorizing a named person to draw money from correspondents of the issuer
- on creditwith payment to be made at a future date
verb
- foll by with to ascribe (to); give credit (for)
they credited him with the discovery
- to accept as true; believe
- to do credit to
- accounting
- to enter (an item) as a credit in an account
- to acknowledge (a payer) by making such an entry Compare debit
- to award a credit to (a student)
Derived Forms
- ˈcreditless, adjective
Other Words From
- cred·it·less adjective
- o·ver·cred·it verb
- pre·cred·it verb (used with object)
- su·per·cred·it noun
- un·cred·it·ed adjective
- well-cred·it·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of credit1
Word History and Origins
Origin of credit1
Idioms and Phrases
- do someone credit, to be a source of honor or distinction for someone. Also do credit to someone.
- to one's credit, deserving of praise or recognition; admirable:
It is to his credit that he freely admitted his guilt.
More idioms and phrases containing credit
see do someone proud (credit to) ; extend credit to ; get credit for ; give credit where credit is due .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.
To his credit, Huckabee is conscious of the fact that he will need a cluster of deep-pocketed patrons and bundlers.
To be sure, Jefferson did share the credit, but not in the way such a resolution might be interpreted.
That could include private financial or personal information—like the credit-card numbers you used to pay for the corrupted Wi-Fi.
And much of the credit to her transformation is owed to a finishing school that caters to women just like her.
After all, here was a babe equipped to face the exigencies of a censorious world; in looks and apparel a credit to any father.
The result of the restoration of trade, banking, and credit to earlier and more normal conditions has been steadily apparent.
He went to a bank in the little town where he had other friends from whom he had never asked credit.
I must make no mistake, and blunder into a national type of features, all wrong; if I make your mask, it must do us credit.
The so-called war credit banks are designed to serve this purpose.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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