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1846 Bell's New Weekly Messenger 20 Dec. 1/5 A bank may fix a credit limit as a sort of general guide for its officers.

1925 University Jrnl. of Business 3 173 Financial standards can be developed for various classes of customers and used in setting and enforcing credit limits.

2010 C. Balish & G. Williams Living Well with Bad Credit ix. 172 I had planned to pay cash for the meal because I knew my Visa card was pretty close to being over the credit limit.

1821 Acts Gen. Assembly Virginia 15 It shall be lawful for the said rector and visitors to borrow, within the limit aforesaid.]

1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking iii. 76 The banker gives him [sc. his customer] a ‘limit’, beyond which he must not draw.

1890 Mich. School Monitor 20 Mar. 406/1 The Bay City Board of Education have come down to hard-pan. They have borrowed up to the limit, and have only enough cash to run the schools another month.

1920 J. M. Regan Financing Business xiv. 266 Except in extreme cases, it is never wise to borrow up to the limit.

1922 H. M. Carter Business Man & His Bank (Indiana Univ. thesis) i. 13 The customer can borrow up to his limit by signing a note.

1959 Changing Times June 10/1 If the amount is reasonable and the customer's balance well within his ‘limit’, the word is okay.

1989 Spy (N.Y.) Mar. 109/1 Several banks responded to his increased use of their cards by raising his credit limit.

2008 Independent Save & Spend (Nexis) 9 Feb. (Money section) 6 A letter from Abbey in November thanked me for asking for an advance overdraft facility..and gave me a £3,300 limit.