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family credit

British

noun

(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

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Example Sentences

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This year, Parsons, 44 years old, locked the family credit card.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

Tamira got dengue fever in Thailand, their family credit card got swallowed by a machine in Vietnam and all five of them got a sickness bug while staying in a hostel in the Philippines.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025

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

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024

They are like foolish teenagers trusted with the family credit card.....any stupid expenditure to gain favor and standing with those whose attention they crave.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2018

It would be impossible to save the family credit for a day.

From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles

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