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:

    ““What are the characteristics of today’s world so that one may recognize it by them?” It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs ‘pass,’ so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “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)