meaning of credit
1. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.
2. Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation.
3. A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation.
4. That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor.
5. Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest.
6. 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.
7. The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.
8. 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 ones credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B.
9. A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities.
10. A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.
11. To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.
12. To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
13. 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.
14. used in the phrase `to your credit in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise; "she already had several performances to her
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Related Words
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