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credit rating
noun
- a classification of credit risk based on investigation of a customer's or potential customer's financial resources, prior payment pattern, and personal history or degree of personal responsibility for debts incurred.
credit rating
noun
- an evaluation of the creditworthiness of an individual or business enterprise
credit rating
- An evaluation of the financial trustworthiness of an individual, firm, or government.
Word History and Origins
Origin of credit rating1
Example Sentences
These algorithms train a sort of machine gaze on photographs and videos, spitting out numerical values akin to credit ratings, where the highest scores can unlock the best online opportunities for likes, views, and matches.
Today, a city with a decent credit rating can borrow for about 2% for 30 year loans, and even a city with mediocre ratings can borrow for less than 4%.
Ant defines itself as a technology company, but it operates various financial tools, including investment products and credit rating services.
Moody’s, the credit rating agency, expects the ratio of debt to GDP in the 19 biggest emerging markets to rise by an average of 10 percentage points this year alone.
To the extent SEC investigators believe Sweetwater’s managers lied to their credit rating agency and investors, “they will go after it,” said Matt Fabian, who researches municipal bond markets for Municipal Market Analytics.
It kept its AAA credit rating; GDP per capita climbed; inflation and unemployment are still low; and the dollar is strong.
The mere threat to withhold authorization, in fact, is as damaging to our credit rating as actually defaulting.
And for the very first time, the United States lost its triple-A credit rating.
Or when there was no way the Republicans were going to push us to the brink in summer 2011 and hurt our credit rating?
The home state of the president drops to the worst credit rating in the nation.
And all you can show us, by way of credit rating, is the fact that your old employer speaks well of you!
And a nice, fat boost in your credit rating has already gone down to accounting.
"Confidential credit-rating guide; look her up for us," she said.
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