Definition of credit

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Credit (n.) The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit..

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Creditable :: Creditable (a.) Deserving or possessing reputation or esteem; reputable; estimable.
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..
Debtee :: Debtee (n.) One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.
Authoritative :: Authoritative (a.) Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding..
Kite :: Kite (n.) Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill..
Debtor :: Debtor (n.) One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.
Credit :: Credit (v. t.) To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond..
Assignee :: Assignee (v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors..
Demand :: Demand (v. t.) The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors..
Discrediting :: Discrediting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discredi.
Credit :: Credit (v. t.) To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.
Discredit :: Discredit (v. t.) To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited..
Satisfy :: Satisfy (a.) To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor..
Slander :: Slander (v. t.) To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts.
Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors..
Frist :: Frist (v. t.) To sell upon credit, as goods..
Decry :: Decry (v. t.) To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage..
Impeach :: Impeach (v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct..
Readjuster :: Readjuster (n.) One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State's creditors..
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