(~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