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UK
/kɹˈɛdɪt/
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[ US /ˈkɹɛdət, ˈkɹɛdɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹɛdət, ˈkɹɛdɪt/ ]
VERB
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ascribe an achievement to
She was not properly credited in the program -
accounting: enter as credit
We credit your account with $100 - have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of
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give someone credit for something
We credited her for saving our jobs
NOUN
- arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
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used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise
she already had several performances to her credit -
approval
give her credit for trying
he was given credit for his work
give her recognition for trying - an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments
- an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items
- recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours
- money available for a client to borrow
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a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book
the student's essay failed to list several important citations
the article includes mention of similar clinical cases -
an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work
the credits were given at the end of the film
How To Use credit In A Sentence
- Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service
- When the tax credit was in place, a person could buy a house for $8,000 down (the bluebook value of a 2005 Dodge Caravan). Tom Silva: Why Should We Care About Housing?
- Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
- So the publisher/distributor is sending the rest of the order while the first half is being RETURNED FOR CREDIT, and Borders can then use that credit to get books through Ingrams, who carries a helluva lot more than just that one small press. January 11th, 2009
- Julian ought to have resigned, then he'd have come out of it with some credit.
- Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
- June 17, 2006, 4: 01 pm card with bad credit says: card with bad credit maintainer internship decrypt arrangements. coplanar cusp The Volokh Conspiracy » “Bush Voters Are Stupid”:
- In his 1982 "Secondary Currents," which is described in the film's title credits as a "film noir," Rose pushes the sound and image concerns of structuralist filmmakers by creating a work that is "imageless": on a black screen, white subtitles translate the gibberish of the unreliable narrator in the voice-over. Baltimore City Paper
- He can still credit marvels, the little miracles and epiphanies that rise out of our daily lives.
- Many freshmen have to take remedial English classes for which they receive no credit.
