Definition of credit

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Credit (n.) Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation.

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Credence :: Credence (n.) Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.
Charge D''affaires :: Charge d'affaires (n.) A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary..
Book :: Book (n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc..
Trust :: Trust (n.) Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust..
Honor :: Honor (n.) Fame; reputation; credit.
Credit Mobilier :: Credit mobilier () 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..
Trust :: Trust (n.) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods..
Crediting :: Crediting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Credi.
Bilk :: Bilk (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor..
Dividend :: Dividend (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate..
Surchargement :: Surcharge (n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given..
Implicate :: Implicate (v. t.) To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc..
Slander :: Slander (v. t.) To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.
Subrotund :: Subrogation (n.) The substitution of one person in the place of another as a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor..
Credit :: Credit (n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation..
Adage :: Adage (n.) An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb..
Appropriation :: Appropriation (n.) The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter..
Accreditation :: Accreditation (n.) The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation..
Reckon :: Reckon (v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
Impeach :: Impeach (v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper..
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