credit line

noun

1
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: a line, note, or name that acknowledges the source of an item (such as a news dispatch or television program)

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The end for Carroll Fulmer came less than three months after the trucking company secured a $27 million credit line from Gordon Brothers. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 5 Aug. 2025 The Argentinian president was under pressure from the International Monetary Fund and Washington to let the credit line with China lapse, but Milei refused to do so and managed to hold his own, playing both sides against the middle. Jorge Heine, The Conversation, 7 July 2025 To be sure, China’s economy is struggling, and its new credit line for Latin America will be less than half of what China announced at the first CELAC meeting in 2015. Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 16 May 2025 That would freeze innovation exactly when the real economy could use cheaper credit lines. Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for credit line

Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use of credit line was in 1888

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“Credit line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/credit%20line. Accessed 10 Aug. 2025.

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