credit bureau

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   a private firm that maintains consumer credit data files and provides credit information to authorized users for a fee

   Broaderagency

Questions about credit bureau

What does credit bureau mean?

credit bureau means "a private firm that maintains consumer credit data files and provides credit information to authorized users for a fee".

Is credit bureau a common word?

credit bureau 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.