bilateral credit

noun [U] MONEY

Definition

› a situation in which two people or groups agree not to ask for debts to be paid for a particular period of time: Risks may be controlled centrally by obliging a participant to establish a bilateral credit limit with every other participant.

(Definition of bilateral credit noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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