Definitions For Credit

noun

  • Used in the phrase to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise
  • Recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours
  • An estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments
  • An entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work
  • Approval
  • A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
  • Arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
  • Money available for a client to borrow
  • An accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items
  • Money that a bank or business will allow a person to use and then pay back in the future
  • A record of how well you have paid your bills in the past
  • An amount of money that is added to an account

verb

  • Have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of
  • Give someone credit for something
  • Ascribe an achievement to
  • Accounting: enter as credit
  • To add (an amount of money) to a total
  • To add money to (an account)
  • To give honor or recognition to (someone or something) for doing something or for making something happen

Is Credit a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
10

The word Credit is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Credit in a Sentence

  • Banks that extend credit to the public
  • You need to have a strong credit history and a good job in order to get a mortgage.
  • A credit of $50 was added to your account.
  • Your payment of $38.50 has been credited to your account.
  • The bank is crediting your account for the full amount.
  • They credited the rescue to his quick thinking.

Synonyms for Credit

Antonyms for Credit

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