1. Acknowledgement, praise or respect for something, e.g. having a quality, producing something, doing something, etc.
   "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying";
   - recognition
    
2. Arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
   "The store offered a credit plan for large purchases";
   - deferred payment, tick [Brit, informal]
    
3. Money available for a client to borrow
   "The bank extended a line of credit to the small business"
    
4. An estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfil their financial commitments
   "The company's credit rating was downgraded after a series of missed payments";
   - credit rating
    
5. An accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items
   "The accountant made a credit entry to record the customer's payment";
   - credit entry
    
6. Recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours
   "He needed three more course credits to graduate";
   - course credit
    
7. An entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work
   "the credits were given at the end of the film"
    
8. A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
   "the student's essay failed to list several important credits";
   - citation, cite [informal, rare], acknowledgment, reference, mention, quotation

1. Give someone credit for something
   "We credited her for saving our jobs"
    
2. Ascribe an achievement to
   "She was not properly credited in the program";
   - accredit
    
3. Enter as credit
   "We credit your account with $100"
    
4. Have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of
   "I credit his account of the events"

Derived forms: credited, crediting, credits

Type of: account, accounting entry, annotation, approval, approximation, ascribe, assets, assign, attainment, attribute, commendation, entry, estimate, estimation, idea, impute, ledger entry, notation, note, payment, title, trust

Antonym: cash, debit

Part of: film, flick [informal], motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic [informal], picture, picture show

Encyclopedia: Credit, Arkansas