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to accredit

to accredit

1 5.8
To say that someone made or caused something
  • verb
  • /əˈkrɛdɪt/
  • Formal
: acreditar
  • The university needs to accredit new programs to ensure they meet educational standards.

Examples

  • But there's one particular football team, all right, who always get accredited as being the most loyalist, shall we say, and that's Chelsea.

  • I honestly accredit all of my hair health to access.

  • We claim complete musicianship; we advertise and accredit accordingly.

    Academic text (1992)

  • 2) Link to **25;25861;TOOLONG 3) Accredit authorship to J. Croft

    Blog text (15)

  • Besides expressing concern about the Roloff Homes' problems, Texas legislators complained that the child care association would accredit only other fundamentalist Christian providers.

    Academic text (2001)

  • It is questionable whether anything like this could have happened had Thomas not been able to accredit Aristotle as the Western world's premier philosophic authority and bring him into the Christian fold; if not as a full-fledged citizen, at least as a highly respected resident alien.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The organization will accredit various institutions that fulfill the necessary criteria.

  • Before enrolling, I verified if the school was accredited by the appropriate governing body.

Synonyms

to honor
vsto accredit
  • US
722 2.3

Show great respect to someone, often in public

is official recognition or ascription rather than ceremonial respect
to credit
vsto accredit
148 3.5

To publicly say someone is responsible for something

is more formal attribution of achievement or origin than mere public mention
to certify
vsto accredit
  • Formal
62 3.9

To officially say that something meets a required standard

focuses on saying something meets standards rather than attributing origin
to recognize for
vsto accredit
  • US
27 2.4

To give praise or a reward to someone for something good they did

is mainly about formal attribution or origin not just reward or thanks
to cite
vsto accredit
  • Formal
3 4.8

To praise someone in an official statement for an achievement

is broader and adds formal approval or origin attribution beyond naming
to officialize
vsto accredit
  • US
1 7.0

To give something formal approval from someone in charge

is about assigning origin or achievement rather than granting formal status

How Credited

to certify
  • Formal
62 3.9
to accredit
  • Formal
1 5.8

Surface Forms

accredit infinitive
accredited past
accredited past participle
accrediting present participle
accredits third person singular

Morphology

accredit = credit (transparent) = ac + credit

The verb is formed by the productive prefix 'ac-' (variant of ad-) added to 'credit', yielding the sense 'to give credit/recognition', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Accredit comes from the Latin parts ad- ('to') and credere ('believe'), the same root as credit. So to accredit someone with an invention is to 'give them credit' — to say you believe they are the source.