accredit
verb /əˈkredɪt/
/əˈkredɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they accredit | /əˈkredɪt/ /əˈkredɪt/ |
| he / she / it accredits | /əˈkredɪts/ /əˈkredɪts/ |
| past simple accredited | /əˈkredɪtɪd/ /əˈkredɪtɪd/ |
| past participle accredited | /əˈkredɪtɪd/ /əˈkredɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form accrediting | /əˈkredɪtɪŋ/ /əˈkredɪtɪŋ/ |
- [usually passive] (formal) to believe that somebody is responsible for doing or saying something
- be accredited to somebody The discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs of the 11th century.
- be accredited with something The Arabs are usually accredited with the discovery of distillation.
- She is accredited with having first introduced the word into the language.
- [usually passive] (specialist) to choose somebody for an official position, especially as an ambassador
- be accredited to… He was accredited to Madrid.
- accredit something/somebody to officially approve something/somebody as being of an accepted quality or standard
- Institutions that do not meet the standards will not be accredited for teacher training.
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in sense (3)): from French accréditer, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + crédit ‘credit’.