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Credit Definition–noun | 1. | commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.
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: Give credit where it is due. | | 2. | a source of pride or honor: You are a credit to your school. | | 3. | the ascription or acknowledgment of something as due or properly attributable to a person, institution, etc.: She got a screen credit for photography. | | 4. | trustworthiness; credibility: a witness of credit. | | 5. | confidence in a purchaser's ability and intention to pay, displayed by entrusting the buyer with goods or services without immediate payment. | | 6. | reputation of solvency and probity, entitling a person to be trusted in buying or borrowing: Your credit is good. | | 7. | influence or authority resulting from the confidence of others or from one's reputation. | | 8. | time allowed for payment for goods or services obtained on trust: 90 days' credit. | | 9. | reput
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e; reputation; esteem. | | 10. | a sum of money due to a person; anything valuable standing on the credit side of an account: He has an outstanding credit of $50. | | 11. | Education. | a. | official acceptance and recording of the work completed by a student in a particular course of study. | | | 12. | Bookkeeping. | a. | an entry of payment or value received on an account. | <
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| 13. | any deposit or sum of money against which a person may draw. | –verb (used with object) | 14. | to believe; put confidence in; trust; have faith in. | | 15. | to bring honor, esteem, etc., to; reflect well upon. | | 16. | Bookkeeping. to enter upon the credit side of an account; give credit for or to. | | 17. | Education. to award educational credits to (often fol. by with): They credited me with three hours in history. | —Verb phrase | 18. | credit to or with, to ascribe to a (thing, person, etc.): In former times many herbs were credited with healing powers. | —Idioms | 19. | do someone credit, to be a source of honor or distinction for someone. Also, do credit to someone. | | 20. | on credit, by deferred payment: Everything they have was bought on credit. | | 21. | to one's credit, deserving of praise or recognition; admirable: It is to his credit that he freely admitted his guilt. | |
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Report Definition–noun | 1. | an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient. | | 2. | a statement or announcement. | | 3. | a widely circulated statement or item of news; rumor; gossip. | | 4. | an account of a speech, debate, meeting, etc., esp. as taken down for publication. | | 5. | a loud noise, as from an explosion: the report of a distant cannon. | | 6. | a statement of a student's grades, level of achievement, or academic standing for or during a prescribed period of time. | | 7. | Computers. output, esp. printed, containing organized information. | | 8. | a statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of a case argued and determined in a court of justice. | | 9. | reports, Law. a collection of adjudications. | | 10. | repute; reputation; fame: a man of bad report. | –verb (used with object) | 11. | to carry and repeat, as an answer or message; repeat, as what one has heard. | | 12. | to relate, as what has been learned by observation or investigation. | | 13. | to give or render a formal account or statement of: to report a deficit. | | 14. | to send back (a bill, amendment, etc.) to a legislative body with a formal report outlining findings and recommendations (often fol. by out): The committee reported out the bill. | | 15. | to make a charge against (a person), as to a superior: I intend to report him to the dean for cheating. | | 16. | to make known the presence, condition, or whereabouts of: to report a ship missing. | | 17. | to present (oneself) to a person in authority, as in accordance with requirements. | | 18. | to take down (a speech, lecture, etc.) in writing. | | 19. | to write an account of (an event, situation, etc.), as for publication in a newspaper. | –verb (used without object) | 21. | to prepare, make, or submit a report of something observed, investigated, or the like. | | 22. | to serve or work as a reporter, as for a newspaper. | | 23. | to make one's condition or whereabouts known, as to a person in authority: to report sick. | | 24. | to present oneself duly, as at a place: to report to Room 101. | —Idiom | 25. | on report, Military. (of personnel) under restriction pending disciplinary action. | |
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