credit line
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈkrɛdɪt laɪn/
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línea de crédito
- The bank approved a credit line of $50,000 for her small business to cover unexpected expenses.
I got all of my friends credit lines to gamble there.
- I got all of my friends credit lines to gamble there.
- I, I, I only have a million and a half dollar credit line.
- Now, once the market falls, which seems like might be within the next year to two years, you won't be able to get these credit lines anymore because of two reasons.
- What do those people spend money on when they get credit lines, cars, boats, you know, home improvements, solar, great.
- TMT had a good reputation in Swiss financial circles before being purchased and, crucially, had existing credit lines in place.
- Gupta told the courts that Traffic you're a mastermind at the fraud and asked him to be complicit in their scheme to boost credit lines and their profits.
Examples
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I had a credit line at the bank I had to pay.
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Do I get a credit line?
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Did you get the credit line? - Not yet.
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My bank has declined a recent business credit line increase.
Blog text (10) -
The company can only keep operating thanks to a $4.5 billion bank credit line it secured, but that will run out in June 2013.
Blog text (7) -
I maxed out our credit line.
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Pure speculation on my part, but I suspect it was done on the possibility that their credit line would be reduced.
Blog text (9) -
A credit line will also be offered for low-income buyers.
Academic text (2001) -
Consider closing or capping credit lines until business ownership issues are settled.
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Shortly after the summit, Japan opened a $100 million credit line for investments in an offshore oil field off the island of Sakhalin.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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3.1
A plan from a bank that lets you borrow up to a set amount
How Large
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3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'credit line' is directly built from 'credit' (to attribute authorship or responsibility) + 'line' (a line of text), so a learner who knows those senses can infer it denotes the line that gives credit to the writer/creator. Although 'byline' is a related, more common term for author attribution, the composition here is transparent and predictable.
Etymology
Credit line: One popular story says this phrase comes from old shop ledgers where a clerk drew a line to show how much credit a customer could use. That's why today credit line means the maximum amount of money a bank or lender will let you borrow.