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   Also found in: Legal 0.01 sec.
credit someone or something with something 
1. Lit. to record a payment, deposit, etc., to the account of someone or something. I will credit you with this payment as you request. Your account has been credited with this adjustment.
2. Fig. to give someone or something well-deserved praise for doing something or having something. We have to credit Jeff with saving us a lot of money. We will credit the weather with part of the success of the picnic.
See also: credit

credit somebody with something
to believe that someone has a particular quality or ability I credited her with more sense than she showed.
See also: credit


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If any of them get stuck, you go around yourself and guarantee their credit with the butchers and grocers.
Make her pay for it, you stupid child; and do your family some credit with the money
The ingenuity of this behaviour had gained Jenny so much credit with this worthy man, that he easily believed what she told him; for as she had disdained to excuse herself by a lie, and had hazarded his further displeasure in her present situation, rather than she would forfeit her honour or integrity by betraying another, he had but little apprehensions that she would be guilty of falsehood towards himself.
 
 
 
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