credit rating
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- noun
- /ˈkrɛdɪt ˈreɪtɪŋ/
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calificación crediticia
- A high credit rating can help you secure better interest rates on loans.
- credit rating agency
- applicant's credit rating
- high credit rating
Moody's has downgraded the US credit rating from AAA to AA.
- Moody's has downgraded the US credit rating from AAA to AA.
- Triple B means pre junk credit ratings.
- And quite frankly, you can't really blame Fitch for down grading the United States's credit rating.
- With the country's revenue slashed and credit rating falling, the government's struggle to refinance its foreign debt.
- The government will no longer make any use in any regulation of credit ratings.
- Well, it might be another podcast, but you have a credit rating United States that was says, well, there's risk in it now it's not risk free.
- So how do these downgrades in the US, you know, credit rating, I mean, does that affect stable coin or, you know, or, or or not?
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Other industry members have seen their credit ratings drop, and financing costs for the industry have risen dramatically.
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Ford lost its investment-grade credit rating in 2005, when it was deeply in debt.
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What exactly is the credit rating on this bond?
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Many insurance companies will check your credit rating before quoting you on your auto insurance.
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If you hold out too long, you could jeopardize your credit rating.
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Their computers gathered up the credit data of millions of Americans and were being used by the banks to decide individuals' credit ratings.
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Failure to comply could adversely affect your credit rating.
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And as you can see, according to Standard and Poor's, Argentina's credit rating is AD, which is as low as you can possibly get.
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Moody's has downgraded the US credit rating from AAA to AA.
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Poor harvests, declining markets, and bad public relations might easily jeopardize the credit rating and financial position of small-town shopkeepers.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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A score that shows how good something like a film or restaurant is
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A credit score lenders use to decide if someone can get a loan
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How likely a person or company will pay back money they borrowed
The quality of being trusted by banks to get a loan
How Creditworthy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a score assessing ability to repay debts' is directly derivable from combining 'credit' (financial trust/loan) with 'rating' (an evaluation or score). This noun+noun compositional pattern — literally the rating of one's creditworthiness — is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The term credit rating comes from banks and other lenders giving a simple score, with credit meaning 'trust that someone will pay back money' and rating meaning 'a number or mark'. So today credit rating means 'a score that shows how likely a person or country is to repay debts'.