ALL meanings of credit
cred·it
C c - 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
- verb credit If people credit someone with an achievement or if it is credited to them, people say or believe that they were responsible for it. 3
- verb credit If you credit someone with a quality, you believe or say that they have it. 3
- singular noun credit If you say that someone is a credit to someone or something, you mean that their qualities or achievements will make people have a good opinion of the person or thing mentioned. 3
- verb credit If you cannot credit something, you cannot believe that it is true. 3
- countable noun credit The list of people who helped to make a film, a CD, or a television programme is called the credits. 3
- countable noun credit A credit is a successfully-completed part of a higher education course. At some universities and colleges you need a certain number of credits to be awarded a degree. 3
- noun credit commendation or approval, as for an act or quality 3
- noun credit a person or thing serving as a source of good influence, repute, ability, etc 3
- noun credit the quality of being believable or trustworthy 3
- noun credit influence or reputation coming from the approval or good opinion of others 3
- noun credit belief in the truth, reliability, quality, etc, of someone or something 3
- noun credit a sum of money or equivalent purchasing power, as at a shop, available for a person's use 3
- noun credit the positive balance in a person's bank account 3
- noun credit the sum of money that a bank makes available to a client in excess of any deposit 3
- noun credit the practice of permitting a buyer to receive goods or services before payment 3
- noun credit the time permitted for paying for such goods or services 3
- noun credit reputation for solvency and commercial or financial probity, inducing confidence among creditors 3
- noun credit acknowledgment of an income, liability, or capital item by entry on the right-hand side of an account 3
- noun credit the right-hand side of an account 3
- noun credit an entry on this side 3
- noun credit the total of such entries 3
- noun credit (as modifier) 3
- noun credit a distinction awarded to an examination candidate obtaining good marks 3
- noun credit a section of an examination syllabus satisfactorily completed, as in higher and professional education 3
- verb credit to ascribe (to); give credit (for) 3
- verb credit to accept as true; believe 3
- verb credit to do credit to 3
- verb credit to enter (an item) as a credit in an account 3
- verb credit to acknowledge (a payer) by making such an entry 3
- verb credit to award a credit to (a student) 3
- noun credit belief or trust; confidence; faith 3
- noun credit the quality of being credible or trustworthy 3
- noun credit the favorable estimate of a person's character; reputation; good name 3
- noun credit one's influence based on one's reputation 3
- noun credit praise or approval to which one is entitled; commendation 3
- noun credit a person or thing bringing approval or honor 3
- noun credit acknowledgment of work done or assistance given 3
- noun credit a list of such acknowledgments in a film, television program, book, etc. 3
- noun credit the amount of money remaining in a bank account, etc. 3
- noun credit a sum of money made available by a bank, on which a specified person or firm may draw 3
- noun credit such sums collectively 3
- noun credit the acknowledgment of payment on a debt by entry of the amount in an account 3
- noun credit the right-hand side of an account, where such amounts are entered 3
- noun credit the sum of such entries 3