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# creditworthiness

«creditworthiness» in Mova's school dictionary: **how safe a bank or shop thinks it is to lend money to a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (creditworthiness — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

(money) Creditworthiness is how safe a bank or shop thinks it is to lend money to a person or company, based on whether they usually pay back what they owe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditworthiness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

An adult money word seen by children in talk about loans, mortgages and credit cards: banks check creditworthiness before lending. A «credit score» is a number that measures it. Paying bills on time builds it; missed payments damage it.

### examples

- The bank checked Dad's creditworthiness before giving the mortgage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditworthiness/#x1)
- Paying bills on time improves your creditworthiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditworthiness/#x2)
- A company's creditworthiness affects how much it can borrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditworthiness/#x3)
- Missing loan payments harmed her creditworthiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditworthiness/#x4)
- Lenders use a credit score to judge creditworthiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditworthiness/#x5)
- Good creditworthiness can mean lower interest on a loan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditworthiness/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: creditworthy. Here «credit» means borrowing money that you must pay back, usually with interest — not praise.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «creditworthiness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creditworthiness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.