Credit Credit (from Latin verb ''credit'', meaning "one believes") is the trust which allows one party to provide money or resources to another party wherein the second party does not reimburse the first party immediately (thereby generating a debt) ...

refers to any form of deferred payment, the granting of a loan and the creation of debt. Credit may also refer to:

Places

* Credit, Arkansas, a ghost town *

Credit River The Credit River is a river in southern Ontario, which flows from headwaters above the Niagara Escarpment near Orangeville and Caledon East to empty into Lake Ontario at Port Credit, Mississauga. It drains an area of approximately . The total l ...

, a river in Ontario, Canada *

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 th ...

, a river in the United States *

Credit River, Minnesota Credit River is a city in Scott County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 5,493 at the 2020 census. History The former Credit River Township was organized in 1858. The Credit River flows northward through the city. In 2021, it was ...

, a city in the United States

Arts, entertainment, and media

Credit (creative arts) Credit (from Latin verb ''credit'', meaning "one believes") is the trust which allows one party to provide money or resources to another party wherein the second party does not reimburse the first party immediately (thereby generating a debt) ...

, acknowledging the ideas or other work of writers and contributors **

Closing credits Closing credits, aka end credits or end titles, are a list of the cast and crew of a particular motion picture, television show, or video game. While opening credits appear at the beginning of a work, closing credits appear close to or at th ...

, a list of credits played at the ending of a work **

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 ...

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 scree ...

, a list of credits played at the beginning of a work * Credit (science fiction), a form of currency in some fictional works * "Credit", a song on Meghan Trainor's 2015 album ''

Title A title is one or more words used before or after a person's name, in certain contexts. It may signify their generation, official position, military rank, professional or academic qualification, or nobility. In some languages, titles may be ins ...

'' * 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 game of skill, games of skill and in ...

s and pinball

Finance and accounting

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 report ...

* Credit card * Credit line (disambiguation) *

Credit rating A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government). It is the practice of predicting or forecasting the ability of a supposed debtor to pay back the debt or default. The ...

, an assessment of credit worthiness *

Credit risk Credit risk is the chance that a borrower does not repay a loan In finance, a loan is the tender of money by one party to another with an agreement to pay it back. The recipient, or borrower, incurs a debt and is usually required to pay ...

, the risk of default on a debt *

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 *

Debits and credits Debits and credits in double-entry bookkeeping are entries made in account ledgers to record changes in value resulting from business transactions. A debit entry in an account represents a transfer of value ''to'' that account, and a cred ...

, types of bookkeeping entries *

Line of credit A line of credit is a credit facility extended by a bank or other financial institution to a government, business or individual customer that enables the customer to draw on the facility when the customer needs funds. A financial institution ...

Other uses

Course credit A course credit is a measure of the size of an educational course, often used to determine whether the requirements for an award have been met, to facilitate transfer between institutions, or to enhance intercomparability of qualifications. Credit ...

, a system of measuring academic coursework * Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT), a controlled vocabulary of types of contributions to a research project

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

Finance and accounting

Other uses

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