credit
verb/ˈkredɪt/
/ˈkredɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they credit | /ˈkredɪt/ /ˈkredɪt/ |
| he / she / it credits | /ˈkredɪts/ /ˈkredɪts/ |
| past simple credited | /ˈkredɪtɪd/ /ˈkredɪtɪd/ |
| past participle credited | /ˈkredɪtɪd/ /ˈkredɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form crediting | /ˈkredɪtɪŋ/ /ˈkredɪtɪŋ/ |
- to add an amount of money to somebody’s bank account
- credit something They credited my account two days later.
- credit A with B Your account has been credited with $50 000.
- The bank credited the oil company with $500 000.
- credit B to A $50 000 has been credited to your account.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarypreposition- with
- credit something to somebody’s account
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opposite debit - [usually passive] to believe or say that somebody is responsible for doing something, especially something good
- be credited All the contributors are credited on the title page.
- be credited as somebody/something She has been wrongly credited as the author.
- be credited with doing something The group has been widely credited with creating the sound of heavy metal.
- The company is credited with inventing the industrial robot.
- be credited with something This therapy has long been credited with many benefits.
- be credited for doing something Ray Charles is largely credited for creating soul music.
- be credited for something Matthews was credited for the winning goal.
- be credited to something The invention of the industrial robot is credited to the company.
Extra Examples- She is generally credited as having written over 50 novels.
- The work has been credited to a 16th-century bishop.
- He is widely credited with having started the peace process.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarypreposition- with
- be credited as something
- be credited with something
- be credited to somebody
- …
- credit A with B to believe that somebody/something has a particular good quality or feature
- I credited you with a little more sense.
- Credit me with some intelligence.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarypreposition- with
- be credited as something
- be credited with something
- be credited to somebody
- …
- [usually passive] to believe that somebody/something is of a particular type or quality
- be credited as something The cheetah is generally credited as the world's fastest animal.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarypreposition- with
- be credited as something
- be credited with something
- be credited to somebody
- …
- credit something | credit what, how, etc… | credit that… (British English) (used mainly in questions and negative sentences) to believe something, especially something surprising or unexpected
- He's been promoted—would you credit it?
Extra Examples- I could hardly credit it when she told me she was leaving.
- I find what he says rather hard to credit.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + credit- can hardly
- can scarcely
- be hard to
- …
put money in bank
with achievement
with quality
believe
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally in the senses ‘belief’, ‘credibility’): from French crédit, probably via Italian credito from Latin creditum, neuter past participle of credere ‘believe, trust’.
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