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UK
/kɹˈɛdɪtwˌɜːðɪnəs/
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[ US /ˈkɹɛdɪtˌwɝðinəs/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹɛdɪtˌwɝðinəs/ ]
NOUN
- trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing
How To Use creditworthiness In A Sentence
- If they lose confidence in the creditworthiness of their counterparties, they'll stop lending to each other. Times, Sunday Times
- When you write a cheque, you are drawing on your creditworthiness at a bank.
- In its half-yearly health check of the financial system, the IMF admitted that governments may not be able to withdraw their life-support for the banks as quickly as they hoped and called for a re-think in the way ratings agencies are used to assess the creditworthiness of government debt. Financial system the 'achilles heel' of global recovery, warns IMF
- After all, the lenders claim that they base their refi rates on creditworthiness, and there's not much they can do if these groups have lower average creditworthiness.
- To start with, the referee has to be asked about the customer's character and creditworthiness and, generally, about his circumstances in life.
- But also follows a fundamental reassessment of the creditworthiness and prospects of emerging, versus developed, economies.sentence dictionary
- Many of these are due to circumstances that have little or nothing to do with the borrower's long-term creditworthiness, such as misleadingly marketed and predatory loans or recession-related job losses. Preeti Vissa: How Credit Scores Disproportionately Hurt Communities of Color
- The plaintiffs obtained a report from the defendants, merchant bankers with whom E had an account, as to E's creditworthiness.
- The numbers belie the claims being made on Capitol Hill that Democrats were dragged into signing off on what one lawmaker described as a "sugar-coated Satan sandwich," with the creditworthiness of the United States on the line. FOXNews.com
- Typically, a credit crunch happens when banks start to worry about the creditworthiness of their borrowers.