credit rating

1. 1.

   an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments

   Synonymscredit

   Broaderestimate

Questions about credit rating

What does credit rating mean?

credit rating means "an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments".

What is another word for credit rating?

Close synonyms include credit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is credit rating a common word?

credit rating 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.