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Noun credit has 8 senses

recognition, credit - approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying"; "the credits were given at the end of the film"
--₁ is a kind of approval, commendation
--₁ has particulars:
memorial, commemoration, remembrance; ovation, standing ovation; salute, salutation

Derived form: verb credit₁
credit - money available for a client to borrow
--₂ is a kind of assets
--₂ has particulars:
cheap money; export credit; import credit; credit line, line of credit, bank line, line, personal credit line, personal line of credit; commercial credit; letter of credit
credit, credit entry - an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items
--₃ is a kind of entry, accounting entry, ledger entry
Antonyms: debit, debit entry

Derived form: verb credit₃
credit - used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise; "she already had several performances to her credit";
--₄ is a kind of accomplishment, achievement
credit, deferred payment - arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
--₅ is a kind of payment
Antonyms: cash, immediate payment
credit, course credit - recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours
--₆ is a kind of attainment
--₆ has particulars: semester hour, credit hour
citation, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation - a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases"
--₇ is a kind of note, annotation, notation
--₇ has particulars: photo credit; cross-reference, cross-index
Derived form: verb credit₂
credit - an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work
--₈ is a kind of title
--₈ is a part of
movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick

Derived form: verb credit₂

Verb credit has 4 senses

credit - give someone credit for something; "We credited her for saving our jobs"
--₁ is one way to impute, ascribe, assign, attribute

Derived form: noun credit₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something
accredit, credit - give credit for; "She was not properly credited in the program"
--₂ is one way to impute, ascribe, assign, attribute

Derived forms: noun credit₇, noun credit₈
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody something
=> Somebody ----s PP
credit - accounting: enter as credit; "We credit your account with $100"
--₃ is one way to account, calculate
Antonyms: debit

Derived forms: noun credit₃, noun creditor₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something
credit - have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of
--₄ is one way to trust, swear, rely, bank
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody