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English → English (gcide) Definition: Bank credit 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] 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]