consumer credit

1. 1.

   a line of credit extended for personal or household use

   Broadercredit line

   Narrowerhome loaninstallment creditopen-end credit

Questions about consumer credit

What does consumer credit mean?

consumer credit means "a line of credit extended for personal or household use".

Is consumer credit a common word?

consumer credit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.