| query | If people credit someone with an achievement or if it is c_______ to them, people say or believe that they were responsible for it.If people credit someone with an achievement or if it is credited to them, people say or believe that they were responsible for it. The staff are crediting him with having saved Hythe's life. The mayor is credited with helping make Los Angeles the financial capital of the West Coast. There are 630 words whose first-time use is credited to Milton by the Oxford English Dictionary. |
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| word | credit |
| full-definition | noun If you are allowed credit, you are allowed to pay for goods or services several weeks or months after you have received them. The group can't get credit to buy farming machinery. You can ask a dealer for a discount whether you pay cash or buy on credit. If someone or their bank account is in credit, their bank account has money in it. The idea that I could be charged when I'm in credit makes me very angry. I made sure the account stayed in credit. Interest is payable on credit balances. A credit is a sum of money which is added to an account. The statement of total debits and credits is known as a balance. A credit is an amount of money that is given to someone. The senator outlined his own tax cut, giving families $350 in tax credits per child. Banks provide credit to customers in the form of loans and overdrafts. If you get the credit for something good, people praise you because you are responsible for it, or are thought to be responsible for it. We don't mind who gets the credit so long as we don't get the blame. It would be wrong for us to take all the credit. Some of the credit for her relaxed manner must go to Andy. If you say that someone is a credit 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 credit to his profession. The list of people who helped to make a film, a CD, or a television programme is called the credits . The star of the film wants his name removed from the credits. ...a moviegoer who remains in his seat until the credits are over. A credit is a successfully-completed part of a higher education course. At some universities and colleges you need a certain number of credits to be awarded a degree. verb When a sum of money is credited to an account, the bank adds that sum of money to the total in the account. She noticed that only $80,000 had been credited to her account. The bank decided to change the way it credited payments to accounts. Interest is calculated daily and credited once a year, on 1 April. If people credit someone with an achievement or if it is credited to them, people say or believe that they were responsible for it. The staff are crediting him with having saved Hythe's life. The mayor is credited with helping make Los Angeles the financial capital of the West Coast. There are 630 words whose first-time use is credited to Milton by the Oxford English Dictionary. If you credit someone with a quality, you believe or say that they have it. I wonder why you can't credit him with the same generosity of spirit. They are crediting science with power it doesn't possess. If you cannot credit something, you cannot believe that it is true. Roosevelt either did not learn of the scandal or refused to credit what he heard. It seems hard to credit that such things went on among senior Directors. |
| inflections | creditscreditingcredited |
| cefr-level | B2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2
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