Credit 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, a river in Ontario, Canada
  • Credit River (Minnesota), a river in the United States
  • Credit River, Minnesota, a city in the United States

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Credit (creative arts), acknowledging the ideas or other work of writers and contributors
  • Closing credits, a list of credits played at the ending of a work
  • Motion picture credits
  • Opening credits, 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
  • Game credit, a count of the current number of games that can be played in arcade games and pinball

Finance and accounting

  • Credit bureau
  • Credit card
  • Credit line (disambiguation)
  • Credit rating, an assessment of credit worthiness
  • Credit risk, the risk of default on a debt
  • Credit score, a representation of credit worthiness
  • Debits and credits, types of bookkeeping entries
  • Line of credit

Other uses

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

See also

  • Accreditation
  • Credibility