CREDIT


Meaning of CREDIT in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

If you are allowed ~, you are allowed to pay for goods or services several weeks or months after you have received them.

The group can’t get ~ to buy farming machinery...

You can ask a dealer for a discount whether you pay cash or buy on ~.

N-UNCOUNT: oft on N

2.

If someone or their bank account is in ~, their bank account has money in it. (mainly BRIT)

The idea that I could be charged when I’m in ~ makes me very angry...

Interest is payable on ~ balances.

N-UNCOUNT: in N, N n

3.

When a sum of money is ~ed to an account, the bank adds that sum of money to the total in the account.

She noticed that only $80,000 had been ~ed to her account...

Midland decided to change the way it ~ed payments to accounts...

Interest is calculated daily and ~ed once a year, on 1 April.

? debit

VERB: be V-ed to n, V n to n, be V-ed, also V n

4.

A ~ is a sum of money which is added to an account.

The statement of total debits and ~s is known as a balance.

? debit

N-COUNT

5.

A ~ is an amount of money that is given to someone.

Senator Bill Bradley outlined his own tax cut, giving families $350 in tax ~s per child...

= allowance

N-COUNT

6.

If you get the ~ for something good, people praise you because you are responsible for it, or are thought to be responsible for it.

It would be wrong for us to take all the ~...

Some of the ~ for her relaxed manner must go to Andy.

? blame

N-UNCOUNT: oft the N for n/-ing

7.

If people ~ someone with an achievement or if it is ~ed to them, people say or believe that they were responsible for it.

The staff are ~ing him with having saved Hythe’s life...

The screenplay for ‘Gabriel Over the White House’ is ~ed to Carey Wilson.

VERB: V n with -ing/n, be V-ed to n, also V n to n

8.

If you ~ someone with a quality, you believe or say that they have it.

I wonder why you can’t ~ him with the same generosity of spirit...

VERB: V n with n

9.

If you say that someone is a ~ to someone or something, you mean that their qualities or achievements will make people have a good opinion of the person or thing mentioned.

He is one of the greatest British players of recent times and is a ~ to his profession.

? disgrace

N-SING: a N to n

10.

The list of people who helped to make a film, a CD, or a television programme is called the ~s.

N-COUNT: usu pl

11.

A ~ is a successfully completed part of a higher education course. At some universities and colleges you need a certain number of ~s to be awarded a degree.

N-COUNT

12.

If you say that something does someone ~, you mean that they should be praised or admired because of it.

You’re a nice girl, Lettie, and your kind heart does you ~.

PHRASE: V inflects

13.

To give someone ~ for a good quality means to believe that they have it.

Bratbakk had more ability than the media gave him ~ for.

PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n

14.

You say on the ~ side in order to introduce one or more good things about a situation or person, usually when you have already mentioned the bad things about them.

On the ~ side, he’s always been wonderful with his mother.

PHRASE: PHR with cl

15.

If something is to someone’s ~, they deserve praise for it.

She had managed to pull herself together and, to her ~, continued to look upon life as a positive experience...

PHRASE: PHR with cl, it v-link PHR that

16.

If you already have one or more achievements to your ~, you have achieved them.

I have twenty novels and countless magazine stories to my ~.

PHRASE

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