full faith and credit

1. 1.

   a guarantee to pay interest and principal on debt; usually issued by the United States Treasury

   Broaderguarantee

Questions about full faith and credit

What does full faith and credit mean?

full faith and credit means "a guarantee to pay interest and principal on debt; usually issued by the United States Treasury".

Is full faith and credit a common word?

full faith and 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.