ADJ
- long-term, short-term
- interest-free
- foreign
- bank
- consumer, export, trade
VERB + CREDIT
- have, use
- When poorer people use credit, mail order is the key source
- get, obtain
- If you don't have a regular income you may be unable to get credit
- extend, give sb, grant (sb), offer (sb)
- Most shops selling furniture or electrical goods will offer credit
- deny sb, refuse sb
- The bank refused further credit to the company
- arrange
- expand
- We propose to expand credit in order to create demand
CREDIT + NOUN
- account, agreement, arrangement, facilities, system, terms
- limit
- Your credit limit is now £2,000
- period
- sale, transaction, transfer
- rating, scoring, standing
- He has a bad credit rating (= seems unlikely to pay the money back)
- risk
- He's a bad credit risk
- control
- crunch, squeeze
- institution, market, union
- note
- If damaged items have to be returned, the manufacturer may issue a credit note
PREP
- on ~
- I bought it on credit
PHRASES
- a letter of credit (= a letter from one bank to another that enables you to obtain money)
- I have arranged for my branch to send a letter of credit to the branch nearest the hotel
ADJ
- direct
- I'm paid by direct credit into my bank account
VERB + CREDIT
- have
- I have three credits on my bank statement
CREDIT + NOUN
- balance
- a credit balance of £265
PREP
- in ~
- My account is in credit
- ~ of
- a credit of £35
ADJ
- great
- full
- eternal, everlasting
- due
- We should give due credit to all who helped make the event a success
- opening
- final
- film
VERB + CREDIT
- give sb
- claim, get, receive, take
- Why should she get all the credit?
- do sb, reflect
- Your concern does you credit. The success of the venture reflects great credit on the organizers
- deserve
PREP
- to sb's ~
- To her eternal credit, she gave them a home
- ~ for
- At least give him credit for trying
PHRASES
- give credit where credit is due 4 the credits list of people who worked
- on a film, etc
CREDIT + VERB
- roll
- We left the cinema before the final credits began to roll
PREP
- ~ to
- He's a great credit to the school
PREP
- with
- The bank credited the oil company with £500,000
PHRASES
- credit sth to sb's account
PREP
- with
- I credited you with a little more sense
PHRASES
- be credited as/with sth
- She is generally credited as having written over 50 novels
- be credited to sb
- The work has been credited to a sixteenth century bishop
- be generally/widely credited with sth
- He is widely credited with having started the Middle East peace process
VERB + CREDIT
- can/could hardly/scarcely
- I could hardly credit it when she told me she was leaving
- be hard to
- I find what he says rather hard to credit