Credit refers to any form of deferred payment, the granting of a loan and the creation of debt.
Credit may also refer to:
Places
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Credit, Arkansas Credit is an extinct town in Craighead County, Arkansas, United States.
Credit got its start in the 1890s when the railroad was extended to that point. The community's name may a play on words with nearby Cash, Arkansas. A post office
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, a ghost town
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Credit River, a river in Ontario, Canada
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Credit River (Minnesota)
The Credit River is a small tributary of the Minnesota River, 22 miles (35 km) long, in the southwestern Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area in Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the ...
, a river in the United States
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Credit River, Minnesota
Credit River is a city in Scott County, Minnesota, Scott County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 5,096 at the 2010 census.
History
The former Credit River Township was organized in 1858. The Credit River (Minnesota), Credit River flow ...
, a city in the United States
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Credit (creative arts)
In general, the term credit in the artistic or intellectual sense refers to an acknowledgment of those who contributed to a work, whether through ideas or in a more direct sense.
Credit in the arts
In the creative arts, credits are an acknowledg ...
, acknowledging the ideas or other work of writers and contributors
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Closing credits, a list of credits played at the ending of a work
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Motion picture credits
Two types of credits are traditionally used in films, television programs, and video games, all of which provide attribution to the staff involved in their productions. While opening credits will usually display only the major positions in a pr ...
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Opening credits
In a motion picture, television program or video game, the opening credits or opening titles are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen ...
, a list of credits played at the beginning of a work
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Credit (science fiction)
A fictional currency is some form of system of money defined, depicted, or alluded to, in works of fiction, such as novels, films or video games. The names of units of such currency are sometimes based on extant or historic currencies (e.g. " ...
, a form of currency in some fictional works
* "Credit", a song on Meghan Trainor's 2015 album ''
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* Game credit, a count of the current number of games that can be played in
arcade game
An arcade game or coin-op game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are presented as primarily games of skill and include arcade v ...
s and pinball
Finance and accounting
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Credit bureau
A credit bureau is a data collection agency that gathers account information from various creditors and provides that information to a consumer reporting agency in the United States, a credit reference agency in the United Kingdom, a credit repor ...
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Credit card
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Credit line (disambiguation)
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Credit rating, an assessment of credit worthiness
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Credit risk, the risk of default on a debt
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Credit score
A credit score is a numerical expression based on a level analysis of a person's credit files, to represent the creditworthiness of an individual. A credit score is primarily based on a credit report, information typically sourced from credit bu ...
, a representation of credit worthiness
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Debits and credits, types of bookkeeping entries
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Line of credit
Other uses
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Course credit, a system of measuring academic coursework
See also
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Accreditation
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Credibility
Credibility comprises the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source or message. Credibility dates back to Aristotle theory of Rhetoric. Aristotle defines rhetoric as the ability to see what is possibly persuasive in ...
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