Credit
['kredɪt] or ['krɛdɪt]
Definition
(noun.) used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise; 'she already had several performances to her credit';.
(noun.) recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services.
(noun.) money available for a client to borrow.
(noun.) an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items.
(verb.) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of.
(verb.) give someone credit for something; 'We credited her for saving our jobs'.
(verb.) accounting: enter as credit; 'We credit your account with $100'.
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Definition
(n.) Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.
(n.) Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation.
(n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation.
(n.) That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor.
(n.) Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest.
(n.) Trust given or received; expectation of future playment 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.
(n.) The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.
(v. t.) To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
(v. t.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Belief, trust, faith, confidence, credence, reliance.[2]. Reputableness, esteem, regard, good repute, good reputation, high character.[3]. Influence (of a good name), power.[4]. Merit, honor, proof of desert.
v. a. [1]. Believe, give faith to, put faith in, rely upon, confide in, doubt not, make no doubt of, take upon credit.[2]. Place to the credit of, carry to the credit of one's account, enter upon the credit side.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Belief, trustworthiness, reputation, security, honor, praise, merit,confidence, faith
ANT:Disbelief, distrust, untrustworthiness, shame, insecurity, disgrace, censure
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of asking for credit, denotes that you will have cause to worry, although you may be inclined sometimes to think things look bright. To credit another, warns you to be careful of your affairs, as you are likely to trust those who will eventually work you harm.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Something for nothing.
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Examples
- The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Famous clients of ours that got us a world of credit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Miss Bingley, said he, has given me more credit than can be. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In the way of getting credit, and living well,' said Mr Lammle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His advice, energy, activity, money, credit, all his resources whatsoever, were all made useless. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is one of the sights of the house, and it always does you credit. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The only thing that stands in its way, sir, is the Credit. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Every king and princelet in Europe was building his own Versailles as much beyond his means as his subjects and credits would permit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The owners of bank credits, and the holders of receipts, constitute two different sorts of creditors against the bank. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Haak from the German Palatinate was one of the earliest Fellows of the Society, and is even credited by Wallis wit h being the first to suggest the meetings of 1645. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The French contribute the only known features that are credited to foreign inventors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But both were, in those ignorant and superstitions times, easily credited as proofs of guilt. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Copeland, two Californian experimenters, are credited with the next known effort to produce a two-wheeler which would travel by its own power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Can it be credited! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The old man had just finished his lunch, and certainly his empty dish bore evidence to the good appetite with which his housekeeper had credited him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is probably the same as the match-lock revolver in the museum of the Tower of London, which is also credited to the Fifteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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