Definition of ACCREDIT

accredit

Verb

Verb Forms: accredited, accrediting, accredits

  • To give official authorization or approval to.
  • grant credentials to
  • provide or send (envoys or embassadors) with official credentials
  • ascribe an achievement to
  • To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
  • To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
  • To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
  • To believe; to put trust in.
  • To enter on the credit side of an account book.
  • To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
  • To recognize as outstanding.
  • To credit.

Examples

  • Nationalisms often accredit all the unemployment issues to immigration.
  • The club will only accredit scores from games played with the official dictionary.
  • The school was an accredited college.

Origin / Etymology

* First attested in the 1610s.
* From French accréditer, from à (“to”) + to credit, from crédit (“credit”).
* See credit.

Scrabble Score: 13

accredit: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
accredit: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
accredit: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

accredit: valid Words With Friends Word