Credit
credit - borrowed money, loans (buy now then pay back later)
long-term credit
short-term credit
obtain credit
a credit limit
credit facilities
refused credit
deny credit
extend credit
buy on credit
shops that offer credit
creditors and debtors
receive a credit towards future purchases in the store
get all the credit they want
a credit rating
interest rates linked to its credit rating
provision of credit information
trade credit
consumer credit
bank credit
interest-free credit
credit market
a credit line
a line of credit
company refused further credit
a letter of credit
an export credit
revolving credit facilities
a credit expansion to stimulate demand in the economy
a credit squeeze
a credit crunch
polls show businessmen more confident and consumers taking on more credit this year
a credit balance in the bank account of 10,000 baht
paid by direct credit into your bank account
finance company which provides the consumer purchasers with credit
people's choice of which type of credit to use
financed by other types of credit
charges made for credit excluded from these figures
credit cards
the balance owed on your credit card
run up a balance on your credit card
the full credit price
paying off the full credit price
free credit for all purchases in the store
buyer bought the goods under a credit agreement
receive a tax credit
earned-income tax credit for low-earners
suffer because the companies they are supplying tend to take extended credit in paying their bills
government's claim to have been the architect of new prosperity, based on finance, credit, and consumer pump-priming rather than on mass manufacturing industry as in the past
take credit [different meaning: claim the succcess is yours]
take all the credit for the success
this is really to their credit
deserve a lot of credit for spreading awareness of the issue throughout the world
Example sentences:
* Credit or cash? [Question asked when buying things at a store]
* So only about one in three people buying on credit feel they have had a real option of choosing between different types of credit arrangement.
* Your customers will be happy because they will get the credit they want.
* And there was virtually no sign of people paying cash when they would really have preferred to buy on credit.
* The store allowed all strikers to have free credit for all purchases in the store.
* Unlike many of our competitors, the provision of credit information has always been our core business.
* So, where the buyer bought the goods under a credit agreement of a certain type he will be able to bring against the creditor a claim similar to that which he can bring against the seller.
* You may take all the credit for that, Caroline.
* Mrs Winterton had welcomed the 1.3 billion extra export credit in the Budget.
* Economic indicators threw a rosy tint on the prospects for recovery today with polls showing businessmen more confident and consumers taking on more credit, while a leading pundit predicts a further 1pc interest rate cut this year.
* They suffer principally because the companies whom they are supplying tend to take extended credit in paying their bills, er so that their problems are not entirely of their own making.
* Despite much popular resentment at the effects of cash restraints on public services, the government's continuing popularity largely rested on its claim to have been the architect of new prosperity, based on finance, credit, and consumer pump-priming rather than on mass manufacturing industry as in the past.
* If you're getting housing benefit this will be affected if you claim a family credit award, as your income will increase.
* The American car maker had guaranteed an issue of $1.1 billion of debt with interest rates linked to its credit ratings.
* Some suggest tinkering with the tax system: raise the ceiling for tax-free earnings, or boost the earned-income tax credit for low-earners.
* I have found Norwegian shows to be very relaxed and Norwegian people accept the decisions of the judge very well, which is to their credit, for with the grading system and every dog receiving a critique, everyone feels they have achieved something.
* The Retail Consortium, which represented 90 per cent of Britain's retailers, said they were cheaper for traders to operate than credit cards.
* As hire purchase was judged to be a system of hiring with an option to buy (by eventually paying off the full credit price), HP escaped the controls of the Moneylenders Acts.
* I think Amsterdam dykes and queers deserve a lot of credit for spreading awareness of the movement throughout Europe and the world.
* The holding company will then receive the dividend as group income without any tax credit.
* The figures below show this (the basis of the official statistics changed early in 1977; since then charges made for credit have been excluded, and some new categories of lender included; the changes in money terms more or less balanced each other):
* The increase in the use of HP, though less marked, is important as HP is used for expensive purchases which are unlikely to crop up as often as the smaller ones financed by other types of credit.
* Pensioners were anyway much less likely than others to have used many sources of credit, though the types of credit for which their awareness was relatively high were moneylenders, mail order, shop accounts and tallymen.
* As Appendix II suggests, these anxieties may tend to narrow people's choice of type of credit, so that they stick to --; possibly unduly expensive --; forms that they are familiar with, rather than trying to find some cheaper type.
* In addition to the consumer who plans to buy the car, there is a dealer who runs a franchised retail outlet, a property owner from whom he leases the premises, a finance company which provides the consumer purchasers with credit, and a manufacturing company which supplies the dealer with automobiles under a requirements contract and probably a credit arrangement as well.
* Assessments relating to revolving credit facilities (such as current account overdrafts and credit card facilities) will be based chiefly on your ability to maintain payments.
* As long as we do so, we're credit users it is only when we fail that we become debtors.
