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:
“Money is a poor man’s credit card.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“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)
“Gratitude among friends is like credit among tradesmen: it keeps business up, and maintains commerce. And we pay not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we might the more easily find lenders on another occasion.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)