Accredit

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To ascribe or attribute (something) to someone.
  • transitive verb. To give credit to.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To certify as meeting prescribed standards or requirements, as of a profession.
  • transitive verb. To supply with credentials or authority, as of a government: synonym: authorize.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To give credit or credence to; repose confidence in; trust; esteem.
  • To confer credit or authority on; stamp with authority.
  • Hence, specifically To send with credentials, as an envoy.
  • To believe; accept as true.
  • To ascribe or attribute to; invest with the credit of: followed by with.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
  • transitive verb. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
  • transitive verb. To believe; to credit; to put trust in.
  • transitive verb. To credit; to vouch for or consider (some one) as doing something, or (something) as belonging to some one.
  • transitive verb. to attribute something to him.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
  • verb. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
  • verb. To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
  • verb. To believe; to put trust in.
  • verb. To enter on the credit side of an account book.
  • verb. To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
  • verb. To recognize as outstanding.
  • verb. To credit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. provide or send (envoys or embassadors) with official credentials
  • verb. ascribe an achievement to
  • verb. grant credentials to
  • Word Usage
    "Hire professional journalists to "accredit" excellent citizen journalism and train citizen journalists."
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