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:

    “My credit now stands on such slippery ground
    That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,
    Either a coward or a flatterer.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “If you want to be on good terms with everyone in this world, sell goods on credit and never ask for payment.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)