credit rating

noun

: a score or grade that a company or organization gives to a possible borrower and that indicates how likely the borrower is to repay a loan

Credit ratings are based on how much money, property, and debt a borrower has and on how well the borrower has paid past debts.

Examples of credit rating in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But students whose loans are capped under the new law will need to make up the difference, in many cases by taking out private sector loans, which typically have less flexible repayment terms and require a strong credit rating — a heavy lift for students from low-income communities. —Kff Health News, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025

Underfunding the city’s water system could also raise the city’s borrowing costs by damaging its credit rating, Celaya added. —David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025

Google has piles of cash and a red-hot stock, but is instead bringing its pristine credit rating to the deal table, backstopping crypto miners. —Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2025

Meanwhile, a senior analyst at the credit rating agency Moody’s defended the health of the sector in a CNBC interview. —Zev Fima,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for credit rating

• abdicating
• abrogating
• activating
• actuating
• advocating
• aggravating
• aggregating
• agitating
• allocating
• alternating
• animating
• annotating