How to say "credit" in Japanese

• クレジットCommon
  nounThe loanword from English. Typical uses are the credit card and the credits that roll at the end of a film, listing the cast and crew.
  このクレジット・カードは使つかえますか。↗

  Do you honor this credit card?
• かけJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounA shortened form, used for buying or selling on credit: the goods change hands now and the payment is settled later. This is the trade-credit sense between shop and customer, not the credit-card sense.
  長ながくつき合あうには掛かけは禁物きんもつ。↗

  Short accounts make long friends.
• 債権さいけんCommon
  nounThe legal and accounting term: credit as a claim — a creditor's right to payment from a debtor. It covers neither buying on credit nor credit as honor.
  債権さいけんと一緒いっしょにお金かねも盗ぬすまれた。↗

  Bonds together with some money was stolen.
• 誇りほこりJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounAt bottom 'pride' — the feeling, or a person in whom a group takes pride. Its 'credit' is the 'a credit to' sense; money and legal claims play no part in it.
  イギリス人いぎりすじんは自国じこくの詩人しじんを誇ほこりにしている。↗

  England is proud of her poets.
• 名誉めいよJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, na-adjectiveCredit as honor or glory: the esteem and distinction that achievement brings, as when conduct brings credit on one's country. If 'honor' could replace 'credit' in English, choose this word.
  招待しょうたいされた事ことは大変たいへんな名誉めいよです。↗

  It is a great honor to be invited.

Use 「クレジット」 for credit cards and film credits, 「かけ」 for buying on credit, 債権 for a creditor's claim, 「誇り」 for being a credit to someone, and 名誉 for credit as honor or glory.

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• クレジットcredit
• かけcredit
• 債権さいけんcredit
• 誇りほこりpride
• 名誉めいよhonor
• 面目めんぼくface
• 信憑しんぴょうtrust
• 与信よしんcredit
• 沽券こけんdignity
• 声誉せいよreputation
• 面目次第めんぼくしだいface
• 単位たんいcredit (in school, university, etc.)
• 信用しんようcredit
• 金融きんゆうmonetary
• 延べのべcredit (buying)
• のれんreputation (of a store)
• 器量きりょう(public) estimation (esp. of a man)
• つけtab (for later payment)