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credit

 
 
/ˈkredɪt/ verb [T]

Definition

MONEY to add money to someone's bank account
BELIEVE to believe that something is true: Dean's getting married! Who would have credited it?
(Definition of credit verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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