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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.
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.
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.
4.
Have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of.



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"Credit" Quotes from Famous Books



... crowded with impoverished cottagers, was crying for a curate, and Mr. Maumbry generously offered himself as one willing to undertake labours that were certain to produce little result, and no thanks, credit, ...
— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy
... here fooling away all the forenoon, I shan't get a credit mark for having my bed made early!" ...
— Polly and the Princess • Emma C. Dowd
... if beaver make a preliminary survey of a place before beginning to build a dam. I have seen them prowling suggestively along brooks just prior to beaver-dam building operations there, and circumstantial evidence would credit them with making preliminary surveys. But of this there is no proof. I have noticed a few things that seem to have been considered by beaver before beginning dam-building,—the supply of food and of dam-building material, for instance, and the location of the dam so as to require the minimum ...
— Wild Life on the Rockies • Enos A. Mills
... is certain that he was accused of craftiness and meanness. But William of Worcester, whose testimony is valuable, called him Walter le Good. Whatever may be the real truth of the matter, he seems to have made an admirable bishop, his election reflecting considerable credit on the acumen of those concerned in it. For he had not, surely, much to recommend him, at first sight, for so important a position. Though he was Archdeacon of Surrey at the time of his appointment, he was not a priest, and he was quite a young ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter - A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See • Percy Addleshaw
... were the Semitic Babylonians themselves responsible? It seems to me that, in the "Seven Tablets", we may credit them with considerable ingenuity in the combination of existing myths, but not with their invention. The whole poem in its present form is a glorification of Marduk, the god of Babylon, who is to be given pre-eminent rank among the gods to ...
— Legends Of Babylon And Egypt - In Relation To Hebrew Tradition • Leonard W. King


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