credit line
noun
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: a line, note, or name that acknowledges the source of an item (such as a news dispatch or television program)
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Banks are making the argument that such a plan would most hurt poor people, at a time of economic concern, by curtailing or eliminating credit lines, driving them to high-cost alternatives like payday loans or pawnshops.
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Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2026
That credit line is an important one for Saks Global, which has been vexed by a lack of goods to sell this year.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 19 Dec. 2025
Over the past several years, Moscow has supplied military equipment to Caracas, supported Venezuela’s state oil company through joint ventures, and extended loans and credit lines that have helped keep parts of the country’s oil sector functioning.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 11 Dec. 2025
More than half that credit was in the form of liquidity support to corporations, a kind of financing where Chinese creditors – often as one entity in a syndicate of many international financial institutions – act as a credit line for major companies that need cash.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
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Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2026
That credit line is an important one for Saks Global, which has been vexed by a lack of goods to sell this year.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 19 Dec. 2025
Over the past several years, Moscow has supplied military equipment to Caracas, supported Venezuela’s state oil company through joint ventures, and extended loans and credit lines that have helped keep parts of the country’s oil sector functioning.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 11 Dec. 2025
More than half that credit was in the form of liquidity support to corporations, a kind of financing where Chinese creditors – often as one entity in a syndicate of many international financial institutions – act as a credit line for major companies that need cash.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
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“Credit line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/credit%20line. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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