credit
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (9)credits
- approval“give her recognition for trying”“he was given credit for his work”“give her credit for trying”Synonyms: recognitionType of approval, commendationKinds ovation, memorial, salute
- money available for a client to borrowType of assetsKinds cheap money, export credit, credit line, letter of credit, commercial credit, import credit
- an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital itemsSynonyms: credit entryOpposite debitType of entry, accounting entry
- used in the phrase ‘to your credit’ in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise“she already had several performances to her credit”Type of accomplishment, achievement
- arrangement for deferred payment for goods and servicesSynonyms: deferred paymentOpposite cashType of payment
- recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hoursSynonyms: course creditType of attainmentKinds semester hour, credit hour
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage“the student's essay failed to list several important citations”“the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book”“the article includes mention of similar clinical cases”Synonyms: citationciteacknowledgmentreferencementionquotation
- 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”
- an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitmentsSynonyms: credit rating
Verb (4)credits, credited, crediting
- give someone credit for something“We credited her for saving our jobs”More general impute, ascribe
- ascribe an achievement to“She was not properly credited in the program”Synonyms: accreditMore general impute, ascribe
- enter as credit“We credit your account with $100”Opposite debitMore general account, calculateMore specific finance
- have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity ofMore general trustMore specific believe
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Noun privilege of delayed payment
- Spanish
- crédito
- French
- crédit
- German
- Kredit
- Italian
- credito
- Portuguese
- crédito
- Turkish
- kredi
- Russian
- креди́т kredít
- Chinese
- 信用 xìnyòng
- Japanese
- クレジット kurejitto
- Dutch
- krediet
19 more languages
- Polish
- kredyt
- Swedish
- kredit
- Greek
- πίστωση pístosi
- Korean
- 크레디트 keurediteu
- Vietnamese
- tín dụng
- Hungarian
- hitel
- Portuguese (PT)
- crédito
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 信用 xìnyòng
- Catalan
- crèdit
- Czech
- kredit
- Finnish
- luotto
- Georgian
- კრედიტი ḳrediṭi
- Hebrew
- אַשְׁרַאי ashráy
- Lithuanian
- kreditas
- Norwegian
- kreditt
- Romanian
- credit
- Scottish Gaelic
- creideas
- Swahili
- mkopo
- Welsh
- credyd
Noun recognition and respect
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. crédit (cf. It. credito), L. creditum loan, prop. neut. of creditus, p. p. of credere to trust, loan, believe. See Creed.
1. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.
When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit unto them, nor received them.— 1 Macc. x. 46.
2. Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation.
John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown.— William Cowper
3. A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation.
The things which we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony.— Richard Hooker
4. That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor.
I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please.— Alexander Pope
5. Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest.
Having credit enough with his master to provide for his own interest.— Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon
6. Commerce Trust given or received; expectation of future payment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; — applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit.
Credit is nothing but the expectation of money, within some limited time.— John Locke
7. The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.
8. Bookkeeping The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; — the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B.
Bank credit, or Cash credit. See under Cash. — Bill of credit. See under Bill. — Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person named therein is entitled to draw a certain sum of money; when addressed to several different correspondents, or when the money can be drawn in fractional sums in several different places, it is called a circular letter of credit. — Public credit. (a) The reputation of, or general confidence in, the ability or readiness of a government to fulfill its pecuniary engagements. (b) The ability and fidelity of merchants or others who owe largely in a community.
He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.— Daniel Webster
1. To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.
How shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin?— William Shakespeare
2. To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.— Robert South
3. Bookkeeping To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond.
To credit with, to give credit for; to assign as justly due to any one.
Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine.— Newman.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54