Credit

Verb

 * 1)  To believe.
 * Someone said there had been over 100,000 people there, but I can't credit that.
 * 1)  To add to an account (confer debit.)
 * Credit accounts receivable with the amount of the invoice.
 * For the payroll period credit employees' tips to their wages paid account and debit their minimum wage payable account.
 * The full amount of the purchase has been credited to your account.
 * 1)  To acknowledge a contribution.
 * I credit the town council with restoring the shopping district.
 * Credit the point guard with another assist.

Related terms

 * credible
 * credibility
 * creditable
 * creditor
 * credence
 * credential
 * credo
 * creed

Noun

 * 1)  Recognition and respect.
 * I give you credit for owning up to your mistake.
 * He arrived five minutes late, but to his credit he did work an extra ten minutes at the end of his shift.
 * 1)  Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
 * She received a singing credit in last year's operetta.
 * 1) plural A written title shown with a film or video.
 * They kissed, and then the credits rolled.
 * 1)  A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid.
 * 2)  The provision of resources (such as goods, services, or money) by one party (the creditor) to another party (the debtor) where that second party does not immediately pay the first party for the resources in full, and instead either arranges to pay for or to return those resources or equivalent value at a later date
 * In view of your payment record, we are happy to extend further credit to you.
 * 1)  A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).
 * What do you mean my credit is no good?
 * 1)  An addition to certain accounts.
 * 2)  A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
 * Didn't you know that the IRS will refund any excess payroll taxes that you paid if you use the 45(B) general business credit?
 * 1) A source of value, distinction or honour.
 * That engineer is a credit to the team.
 * 1) An arbitrary unit of value, used in many token economies.
 * To repair your star cruiser will cost 100,000 credits.
 * Would you like to play? I put in a dollar and I've got two credits left.
 * 1)  Recognition for having taking a course (class).
 * If you do not come to class, you will not get credit for the class, regardless of how well you do on the final.
 * 1)  A, a credit hour – used measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.
 * Dude, I just need 3 more credits to graduate – I can take socio-linguistics of Swahili if I want.

Synonyms

 * unit

Derived terms

 * course credit
 * creditable
 * credit card
 * credit crunch
 * credit hour
 * credit rating
 * credit reference
 * closing credits


 * end credits
 * extra credit
 * give credit
 * take credit for
 * line of credit
 * opening credits


 * tip wage credit

Related terms

 * credible

Adjectives for Credit
unlimited; tentative; threatened; retirement; weakening; unquestioned; everlasting; cooperative; implicit; highest; fullest; personal; moral; comparative; small; unfailing; exhausted; practical; rescinded; domestic; long-term; foreign; extended.

Verbs
accept―; accumulate―; ascribe to―; bolster up―; claim―; deserve―; expand―; extend―; favor with―; honor―; obtain ―; redound―; rehabilitate―; secure―; share―; strain―; warp―.

Adverbs for Credit
conveniently; ignorantly; tentatively; everlastingly; implicitly; fully; personally; morally; unfailingly; practically; locally; formally; unhesitatingly.

Thesaurus
accept, accept for gospel, accept implicitly, acceptability, acceptation, acception, acclaim, account, account for, accounting for, accredit, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, acknowledgment, acquiescence, answerability, application, apply to, approbation, approval, arrogation, ascendancy, ascribe, ascribe to, ascription, assign, assign to, assignation, assignment, assurance, assuredness, attach to, attachment, attribute, attribute to, attribution, authority, avails, balance, balance the books, be certain, belief, believability, believableness, believe, believe without reservation, benediction, blame, blame for, blame on, bless, book, box office, bring home to, buy, capitalize, carry, carry over, cast up accounts, certainty, charge, charge off, charge on, charge to, charisma, charm, close out, close the books, clout, cognizance, commendation, commissions, conceivability, confess, confidence, connect with, connection with, consequence, consider, consideration, control, credence, credibility, credit with, crediting, credits, credulity, debit, deem, deficit, depend on, dependability, dependence, derivation from, difference, discrepancy, disposable income, distinction, dividend, dividends, docket, dominance, domination, double entry, due, earned income, earnings, effect, eminence, enchantment, enter, entry, epact, esteem, estimation, etiology, faith, faithfulness, fasten upon, father upon, favor, feel, fix on, fix upon, force, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, give credit, give faith to, give thanks, glory, good feeling, grace, great honor, gross, gross income, gross receipts, hang on, hold, honesty, honor, hope, hymn, importance, imputation, impute, impute to, incidental power, income, influence, influentiality, insinuation, intake, item, journalize, keep books, lay, lay to, leadership, leverage, log, magnetism, make, make acknowledgments of, make an entry, mastery, merit, minute, moment, net, net income, net receipts, notation, note, offer thanks, ornament, output, paean, palaetiology, personality, persuasion, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, placement, plausibility, point to, post, post up, potency, power, praise, prayer of thanks, predominance, preponderance, pressure, prestige, probity, proceeds, produce, profits, purchase, put faith in, receipt, receipts, receivables, receive, reception, recognition, recognize, refer, refer to, reference to, regard, reign, reliability, reliance, reliance on, rely on, remainder, render credit, render thanks, repute, respect, responsibility, return thanks, returns, revenue, right, royalties, rule, saddle on, saddle with, saddling, say, sense, set down to, set store by, settle upon, single entry, solvency, stock, store, strike a balance, suasion, subtle influence, suggestion, supremacy, sureness, surety, surplus, suspension of disbelief, swallow, sway, take, take for granted, take on faith, take on trust, take stock in, take-in, takings, tenability, thank, thank offering, thank-you, thanks, thanksgiving, think, tribute, trust, trustworthiness, unearned income, upper hand, weight, what is owing, whip hand, worth, yield

Etymology
For verb: < creditus:, past participle of credere:

For noun: < crédit: <  creditum:, neuter of creditus:, past participe of credere:; the other noun senses are directly from the verb.

Verb

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: geloof hechten aan,


 * Finnish:


 * Dutch: crediteren


 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish: antaa kunnia

Noun

 * Bulgarian:, доверие
 * Dutch:, lofbetuiging
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Telugu: పరపతి (parapathi)


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, betalingsuitstel
 * German:
 * Hebrew: אשראי (ashrai)
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: పరపతి (parapathi)


 * Dutch: kredietwaardigheid
 * Finnish: luottotiedot
 * German:


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Telugu: పరపతి (parapathi)


 * Finnish:

Anagrams

 * direct
 * triced