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2 ADJ A credible candidate, policy, or system, for example, is one that appears to have a chance of being successful. □  Mr Robertson would be a credible candidate.

cred|it ◆◆◇ /kre d I t/ (credits , crediting , credited )

1 N‑UNCOUNT [oft on N ] 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.

2 N‑UNCOUNT [in N , N n] If someone or their bank account is in credit , their bank account has money in it. [mainly BRIT ] □  The idea that I could be charged when I'm in credit makes me very angry. □  Interest is payable on credit balances.

3 VERB When a sum of money is credited to an account, the bank adds that sum of money to the total in the account. □ [be V -ed + to ] She noticed that only $80,000 had been credited to her account. □ [V n + to ] The bank decided to change the way it credited payments to accounts. □ [be V -ed] Interest is calculated daily and credited once a year, on 1 April. [Also V n]

4 N‑COUNT 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.

5 N‑COUNT 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.

6 N‑UNCOUNT 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. □  It would be wrong for us to take all the credit. □ [+ for ] Some of the credit for her relaxed manner must go to Andy.

7 VERB If people credit someone with an achievement or if it is credited to them, people say or believe that they were responsible for it. □ [V n + with ] The staff are crediting him with having saved Hythe's life. □ [be V -ed + to ] There are 630 words whose first-time use is credited to Milton by the Oxford English Dictionary. [Also V n + to , V + with ]

8 VERB If you credit someone with a quality, you believe or say that they have it. □ [V n + with ] I wonder why you can't credit him with the same generosity of spirit.

9 N‑SING 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. □ [+ to ] He is one of the greatest British players of recent times and is a credit to his profession.

10 N‑COUNT [usu pl] The list of people who helped to make a film, a CD, or a television programme is called the credits .

11 N‑COUNT 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.

12 PHRASE If you say that something does someone credit , you mean that they should be praised or admired because of it. □  You're a nice girl, Lettie, and your kind heart does you credit.

13 PHRASE To give someone credit for a good quality means to believe that they have it. □ [+ for ] Bratbakk had more ability than the media gave him credit for.

14 PHRASE You say on the credit side in order to introduce one or more good things about a situation or person, usually when you have already mentioned the bad things about them. □  On the credit side, he's always been wonderful with his mother.