Credit

Credit may refer to:

  • Credit (casino), a marketing tool that, when used appropriately, can result in significant casino revenues
  • Credit (creative arts), acknowledging the ideas or other work of writers and contributors
  • Credit (finance), the granting of a loan and the creation of debt. It is any form of deferred payment.
    • Credit rating, assessment of credit worthiness
    • Credit score, a representation of credit worthiness
  • Credit (science fiction), a form of currency in some fictional works
  • Course credit, a system of measuring academic coursework
  • Debits and credits, a type of bookkeeping entry
  • Game credits, a count of the current number of games that can be played in pinball and arcade games

Famous quotes containing the word credit:

    “Laws remain in credit not because they are just, but because they are laws. That is the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Bless my soul, Sir, will you Britons not credit that an American can be a gentleman, & have read the Waverly Novels, tho every digit may have been in the tar-bucket?”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)