Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To ascribe or attribute (something) to someone.
- transitive verb To give credit to.
- transitive verb To certify as meeting prescribed standards or requirements, as of a profession.
- transitive verb To supply with credentials or authority, as of a government: synonym: authorize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give credit or credence to; repose confidence in; trust; esteem.
- To confer credit or authority on; stamp with authority.
- Hence, specifically To send with credentials, as an envoy.
- To believe; accept as true.
- To ascribe or attribute to; invest with the credit of: followed by with.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
- transitive verb To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
- transitive verb To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
- transitive verb To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.
- transitive verb to attribute something to him.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
ascribe ;attribute ; credit with. - verb transitive To put or bring into
credit ; toinvest with credit orauthority ; tosanction . - verb transitive To send with
letters credential , as anambassador ,envoy , ordiplomatic agent; toauthorize , as amessenger ordelegate . - verb transitive To
believe ; to put trust in. - verb transitive To enter on the credit side of an
account book . - verb transitive To certify as meeting a predetermined
standard ; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance. - verb transitive To recognize as outstanding.
- verb transitive, literally To
credit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb provide or send (envoys or embassadors) with official credentials
- verb ascribe an achievement to
- verb grant credentials to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Hire professional journalists to "accredit" excellent citizen journalism and train citizen journalists.
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Webster's defines "accredit" to mean, to authorize; certify, to believe in; an attribute.
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Hire professional journalists to "accredit" excellent citizen journalism and train citizen journalists.
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Webster's defines "accredit" to mean, to authorize; certify, to believe in; an attribute.
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Hire professional journalists to "accredit" excellent citizen journalism and train citizen journalists.
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For example, recently the New York State Forensic Science Commission was asked to accredit a unit of a police lab in duct tape comparison.
Linda Kenney Baden: Conviction: Unvalidated Science in the Courtroom Linda Kenney Baden 2010
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For example, recently the New York State Forensic Science Commission was asked to accredit a unit of a police lab in duct tape comparison.
Linda Kenney Baden: Conviction: Unvalidated Science in the Courtroom Linda Kenney Baden 2010
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The person in charge of ensuring the security of the computer network that Bradley Manning worked on in Iraq was officially admonished earlier this year for failing to accredit and certify the system.
Bradley Manning hearing told of security failings at Iraq base 2011
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* Refusing to accredit schools simply because they are for-profit; and
Matthew Yglesias » Too Many Lawyers, But Also Too Many Cartels 2010
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Children's Hospital has been accredited since 1986, the first year Pennsylvania had a process in place to formally review and accredit Trauma Centers.
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