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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



... do, but no credit's due him. It was to be. I'm not envying Father Bourassa nor her ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... broke out and dictated his actions, his assumed humility was forgotten in an instant, as well as the well-worded counsels of wisdom by which he had won the Pope's confidence; and he plunged into a civil war with the still powerful Colonna. One act of folly succeeded another; he had neither money nor credit, and the stern Albornoz, seeing the direction he was taking, refused to send him assistance. In his extremity he attempted to raise funds for his soldiers and money for his own unbounded luxury by imposing taxes which the people could not bear. The result was certain and fatal. The Romans rose ...
— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford
... not the money he owns," said Montague; "it's what he controls. He is master of the banks; and no man can take a step in Wall Street without his knowing it if he wants to. And he can break a man's credit; he can have all his loans called. He can swing the market so as to break a man. And then, think of his power in Washington! He uses the Treasury as if it were one of his ...
— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair
... great amount of interest to be taken in aeronautics, with the result that various Frenchmen turned their attention to airship design and production. To France must be due the acknowledgment that she was the pioneer in airship construction and to her belongs the chief credit ...
— British Airships, Past, Present, and Future • George Whale
... out, feeling that he had made a mess of things. He gave Jake credit for his cleverness, quite appreciating the undying hate that prompted it. But the thing that was most prominent in his thoughts was the display the blind man had given him. He smiled when he thought of Jake's boasted threats to Diane; how impotent they ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum


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