deserve credit for

deserve credit for (someone or something)

To warrant recognition for something that one has done. Howie is the one who deserves credit for how successful our presentation was—he stayed late every day this week to work on it. Of course you deserve credit for your hard work, but that doesn't always happen, unfortunately. The boss watched me do the vast majority of work on that project, so she knows I deserve credit for it!

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deserve credit for something

[for someone] to be owed recognition for doing something. He certainly deserves credit for the work he did on the project.

See also: credit, deserve, for

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