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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
credentials
noun
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▪ And those are just a few with Hall of Fame or near Hall of Fame credentials.
▪ Digital certificates provide electronic credentials that enable authenticated and encrypted communications and transactions between sites and individuals over the Internet.
▪ Her credentials, if she could call them that, had somehow got about.
▪ In short, they're advertisements not just for your financial status, but for your impeccable intellectual and social credentials.
▪ She obtained press credentials from two publications to work as a journalist.
▪ So I will provide insight later into my credentials and extensive background as a successful practitioner of Total Quality Management.
▪ Sutton's political credentials helped win the approval of the Founders.
▪ The system has achieved this objective and in the process has established its anti-inflation credentials.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
credentials

"letters entitling the bearer to certain credit or confidence," 1670s, from Medieval Latin credentialis, from credentia (see credence). Probably immediately as a shortening of letters credential (1520s, with French word order); earlier was letter of credence (mid-14c.).

Wiktionary
credentials

n. (plural of credential English): documentary evidence of someone's right to credit or authority, especially such a document given to an ambassador by a country.

WordNet
credentials

n. a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts [syn: certificate, certification, credential]

Usage examples of "credentials".

Then, surprising herself, she fished out her credentials and leaned forward to put them on Farnsworth's desk.

Those FBI credentials had given her almost automatic entree into any place or situation.

She normally would have asked for his identification, but since she no longer had her own credentials, she had to finesse it.

Kreiss made sure his hands were visible, and he held open the credentials so that the approaching guard could see the big black FBI letters.

Farnsworth put Janet's credentials and her Sig down on the kitchen table.

A glance of each was enough to confirm that the credentials she'd given this time were authentic.

He did so with Spacedep credentials to pass by Hrrethan security guards.

Fargo brandished his investigator's credentials, an additional irritant to Scortius, who'd been forced to muck around the countryside trying to find the lost shipment of furs "alleged" to have been stashed somewhere near Jennings.

As Kai recalled, Gaber's credentials rated him as ship-bred, having made only four expeditions in his six decades.

Tee instantly transmitted a copy of Lunzie's credentials and references, which were forwarded to the personnel department.

Sassinak had no idea what that was but overheard another guest explain to someone who asked that these were die Justices' credentials, proof that they were each eligible to sit on that bench.

One of the Amaldas rose, presented two sets of credentials as legal counselors for the defendant and asked the "hearing judge" if it was programmed to refuse defendant's counsel on the basis of similarity in shape and appearance to defendant.

She had sufficient credentials to be taken on as a casual entertainer on some liner at the best or as a ship attendant at the worst.

She had credentials of sufficiently high caliber to gain entrance into the Federal Music Conservatory on Optheria where she hoped she'd be allowed to play on an Optherian organ.

A young man with highly suspicious credentials," Trag said bluntly, his hooded stare fixed on Lars.