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credit

cred·it
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [kred-it]
    • /ˈkrɛd ɪt/
    • /ˈkredɪt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [kred-it]
    • /ˈkrɛd ɪt/

Definitions of credit word

  • uncountable noun credit If you are allowed credit, you are allowed to pay for goods or services several weeks or months after you have received them. 3
  • uncountable noun credit If someone or their bank account is in credit, their bank account has money in it. 3
  • verb credit When a sum of money is credited to an account, the bank adds that sum of money to the total in the account. 3
  • countable noun credit A credit is a sum of money which is added to an account. 3
  • countable noun credit A credit is an amount of money that is given to someone. 3
  • uncountable noun credit If you get the credit for something good, people praise you because you are responsible for it, or are thought to be responsible for it. 3

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Origin of credit

First appearance:

before 1535
One of the 29% oldest English words
1535-45; < Middle French < Old Italian credito < Latin crēditum loan, noun use of neuter of crēditus, past participle of crēdere to believe, confide, entrust, give credit

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Parts of speech for Credit

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

credit popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

credit usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for credit

noun credit

  • attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
  • faith — a female given name.
  • notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
  • kudos — plural of kudo.
  • acknowledgment — An acknowledgment is a statement or action which recognizes that something exists or is true.

verb credit

  • consider — If you consider a person or thing to be something, you have the opinion that this is what they are.
  • accept — If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
  • buy — If you buy something, you obtain it by paying money for it.
  • feel — to perceive or examine by touch.
  • deem — If something is deemed to have a particular quality or to do a particular thing, it is considered to have that quality or do that thing.

Antonyms for credit

noun credit

  • disbelief — the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.
  • distrust — to regard with doubt or suspicion; have no trust in.
  • doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
  • rejection — the act or process of rejecting.
  • censure — If you censure someone for something that they have done, you tell them that you strongly disapprove of it.

verb credit

  • discard — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
  • reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
  • mistrust — lack of trust or confidence; distrust.
  • renege — Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.

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