单词 | bank credit |
释义 | > as lemmasbank credit bank credit n. credit granted by a bank, esp. regarded as a measure of a customer's spending ability; a credit arrangement of this kind. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > action of placing to one's credit > sum placed to one's credit bootingc1300 allowancea1325 bank credit1653 credit1662 book credit1786 1653 S. Hartlib Discov. Div. Land 32 All payments (above ten or twenty pounds) be enjoyned by authority, to be made in Bank-credit. 1752 D. Hume Balance of Trade in Ess. (1817) I. 318 An invention of this kind, which was fallen upon some years ago by the banks of Edinburgh..called a Bank-Credit. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 83 He would have got a bank-credit, manœuvred with wind-bills. 1926 World's Work Sept. 495/2 A much better banking system than we had before the war, which..checks undue expansion in any field where bank credit is being largely used. 1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 May b2/5 Another uncertain signal comes from the low level of both bank credit and M-2, the main measure of money supply. < as lemmas |
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