Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

public credit

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.90 in modern English

Syllables: pub-lic -cred-it
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The loan of money to a government body in return for a bond or similar promissory note.

Example Sentences

"Holonym: bond market"
"The use of credit by a government is simply one of the ways by which income may be obtained, but it is more convenient to deal with the special characteristics of public debts and the use of public credit as a distinct aspect of the subject, and this is done in part IV."
"Therefore the actual and substantive decision authority for public credit lies with the Ministry of Finance which decides on the credit-worthiness of every public utility."
"Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England."

Frequently Paired Words

public debt private credit private equity

Questions

What does public credit mean?: The loan of money to a government body in return for a bond or similar promissory note.

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