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accredit

[ uh-kred-it ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to provide or send with credentials; designate officially:

    to accredit an envoy.

  2. to certify (a school, college, or the like) as meeting all formal official requirements of academic excellence, curriculum, facilities, etc.
  3. to make authoritative, creditable, or reputable; sanction.
  4. to regard as true; believe.
  5. to ascribe or attribute to (usually followed by with ):

    He was accredited with having said it.

  6. to attribute or ascribe; consider as belonging:

    an invention accredited to Edison.



accredit

/ əˈkrɛdɪt /

verb

  1. to ascribe or attribute
  2. to give official recognition to; sanction; authorize
  3. to certify or guarantee as meeting required standards
  4. often foll byat or to
    1. to furnish or send (an envoy, etc) with official credentials
    2. to appoint (someone) as an envoy, etc
  5. to pass (a candidate) for university entrance on school recommendation without external examination

    there are six accrediting schools in the area



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Derived Forms

  • acˌcrediˈtation, noun

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Other Words From

  • ac·cred·it·a·ble adjective
  • ac·cred·i·ta·tion [uh, -kred-i-, tey, -sh, uh, n] noun
  • pre·ac·cred·it verb (used with object)
  • re·ac·cred·it verb (used with object)

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Word History and Origins

Origin of accredit1

First recorded in 1610–20; earlier acredit, from Middle French acrediter; ac-, credit

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Word History and Origins

Origin of accredit1

C17: from French accréditer, from the phrase mettre à crédit to put to credit

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Example Sentences

They would neither be required to be accredited nor report student results.

The president then made a recess appointment, and I went to my post fully accredited.

Like any health care professional degree, ours is externally accredited through the National Accreditation Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences.

The site also asks whether or not the would-be investor is accredited—a distinction that is determined by a person’s net wealth and that can limit the types of investments they are eligible to make.

From Fortune

Amid this maneuvering, deans of the state’s American Bar Association-accredited law schools recently threw their support behind their recent graduates being granted immediate licensure without passing the bar exam, as is normally required.

The most obvious and palpable facts discredit these Judaists and accredit me.

An absolute criterion of truth must at once accredit itself, as well as other things.

Those who have grown it in the several grape districts of New York accredit the vines with about all the faults a grape can have.

But the doctor being himself in an unusually amiable attitude, was inclined to accredit others with a like share of good temper.

He hopelessly began to accredit to Divinity the measure of his own fallibility.

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