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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Credit \Cred"it\ (kr[e^]d"[i^]t), n. [F. cr['e]dit (cf. It.
     credito), L. creditum loan, prop. neut. of creditus, p. p. of
     credere to trust, loan, believe. See Creed.]
     1. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief;
        faith; trust; confidence.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              When Jonathan and the people heard these words they
              gave no credit unto them, nor received them. --1
                                                    Macc. x. 46.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem;
        honor; good name; estimation.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              John Gilpin was a citizen
              Of credit and renown.                 --Cowper.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority
        derived from character or reputation.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The things which we properly believe, be only such
              as are received on the credit of divine testimony.
                                                    --Hooker.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or
        esteem; an honor.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              I published, because I was told I might please such
              as it was a credit to please.         --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or
        favor of others; interest.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Having credit enough with his master to provide for
              his own interest.                     --Clarendon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     6. (Com.) Trust given or received; expectation of future
        playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or
        promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be
        trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations,
        communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Credit is nothing but the expectation of money,
              within some limited time.             --Locke.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     7. The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on
        trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     8. (Bookkeeping) The side of an account on which are entered
        all items reckoned as values received from the party or
        the category named at the head of the account; also, any
        one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of
        debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that
        to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Bank credit, or Cash credit. See under Cash.
  
     Bill of credit. See under Bill.
  
     Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a
        banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person
        named therein is entitled to draw a certain sum of money;
        when addressed to several different correspondents, or
        when the money can be drawn in fractional sums in several
        different places, it is called a circular letter of
        credit.
  
     Public credit.
        (a) The reputation of, or general confidence in, the
            ability or readiness of a government to fulfill its
            pecuniary engagements.
        (b) The ability and fidelity of merchants or others who
            owe largely in a community.
            [1913 Webster]
  
                  He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and
                  it sprung upon its feet.          --D. Webster.
            [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Bank \Bank\, n. [F. banque, It. banca, orig. bench, table,
     counter, of German origin, and akin to E. bench; cf. G. bank
     bench, OHG. banch. See Bench, and cf. Banco, Beach.]
     1. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or
        issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of
        funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution
        incorporated for performing one or more of such functions,
        or the stockholders (or their representatives, the
        directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The building or office used for banking purposes.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a
        joint stock or capital.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be
              master of his own money.              --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. (Gaming) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer
        or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and
        pay his losses.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which
        the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of
        money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which
        they pay fines.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     6. a place where something is stored and held available for
        future use; specifically, an organization that stores
        biological products for medical needs; as, a blood bank,
        an organ bank, a sperm bank.
        [PJC]
  
     Bank credit, a credit by which a person who has given the
        required security to a bank has liberty to draw to a
        certain extent agreed upon.
  
     Bank of deposit, a bank which receives money for safe
        keeping.
  
     Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to
        bearer.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Cash \Cash\ (k[a^]sh), n. [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash.
     See Case a box.]
     A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and
     paid out; a money box. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           This bank is properly a general cash, where every man
           lodges his money.                        --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           [pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R.
                                                    Winwood.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Com.)
        (a) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also
            applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper
            easily convertible into money.
        (b) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to
            sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for
            cash.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     Cash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received,
        disbursed, and on hand.
  
     Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries
        the money received by the salesman from customers to a
        cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.]
  
     Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or
        house, having given security for repayment, draws at
        pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed
        upon; -- called also bank credit and cash account.
  
     Cash sales, sales made for ready, money, in distinction
        from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be
        delivered on the day of transaction.
  
     Syn: Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Bank \Bank\, n. [F. banque, It. banca, orig. bench, table,
     counter, of German origin, and akin to E. bench; cf. G. bank
     bench, OHG. banch. See Bench, and cf. Banco, Beach.]
     1. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or
        issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of
        funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution
        incorporated for performing one or more of such functions,
        or the stockholders (or their representatives, the
        directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
  
     2. The building or office used for banking purposes.
  
     3. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in
        transacting business; a joint stock or capital. [Obs.]
  
              Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be
              master of his own money.              --Bacon.
  
     4. (Gaming) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer
        or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and
        pay his losses.
  
     5. In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which
        the players are allowed to draw.
  
     Bank credit, a credit by which a person who has given the
        required security to a bank has liberty to draw to a
        certain extent agreed upon.
  
     Bank of deposit, a bank which receives money for safe
        keeping.
  
     Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to
        bearer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Cash \Cash\, n. [F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See Case
     a box.]
     A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and
     paid out; a money box. [Obs.]
  
           This bank is properly a general cash, where every man
           lodges his money.                        --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
  
           [pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R.
                                                    Winwood.
  
     2. (Com.)
        (a) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also
            applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper
            easily convertible into money.
        (b) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to
            sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for
            cash.
  
     Cash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received,
        disbursed, and on hand.
  
     Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries
        the money received by the salesman from customers to a
        cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.]
  
     Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or
        house, having given security for repayment, draws at
        pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed
        upon; -- called also bank credit and cash account.
  
     Cash sales, sales made for ready, money, in distinction
        from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be
        delivered on the day of transaction.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Credit \Cred"it\ (kr[e^]d"[i^]t), n. [F. cr['e]dit (cf. It.
     credito), L. creditum loan, prop. neut. of creditus, p. p. of
     credere to trust, loan, believe. See Creed.]
     1. Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief;
        faith; trust; confidence.
  
              When Jonathan and the people heard these words they
              gave no credit unto them, nor received them. --1
                                                    Macc. x. 46.
  
     2. Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem;
        honor; good name; estimation.
  
              John Gilpin was a citizen Of credit and renown.
                                                    --Cowper.
  
     3. A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority
        derived from character or reputation.
  
              The things which we properly believe, be only such
              as are received on the credit of divine testimony.
                                                    --Hooker.
  
     4. That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or
        esteem; an honor.
  
              I published, because I was told I might please such
              as it was a credit to please.         --Pope.
  
     5. Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or
        favor of others; interest.
  
              Having credit enough with his master to provide for
              his own interest.                     --Clarendon.
  
     6. (Com.) Trust given or received; expectation of future
        playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or
        promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be
        trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations,
        communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit.
  
              Credit is nothing but the expectation of money,
              within some limited time.             --Locke.
  
     7. The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on
        trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.
  
     8. (Bookkeeping) The side of an account on which are entered
        all items reckoned as values received from the party or
        the category named at the head of the account; also, any
        one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of
        debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that
        to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B.
  
     Bank credit, or Cash credit. See under Cash.
  
     Bill of credit. See under Bill.
  
     Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a
        banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person
        named therein is entitled to draw a certain sum of money;
        when addressed to several different correspondents, or
        when the money can be drawn in fractional sums in several
        different places, it is called a circular letter of
        credit.
  
     Public credit.
        (a) The reputation of, or general confidence in, the
            ability or readiness of a government to fulfill its
            pecuniary engagements.
        (b) The ability and fidelity of merchants or others who
            owe largely in a community.
  
                  He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and
                  it sprung upon its feet.          --D. Webster.

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  bank credit /bˈaŋk kɹˈɛdɪt/
  Bankdarlehen  [fin.]
     Synonyms: bank loan, bank advance
  
   see: bank loans, bank credits, bank advances
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  bank credit /bˈaŋk kɹˈɛdɪt/
  Bankkredit 
   see: bank loan, loan, bank loans
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 银行信贷

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