Crossword clues for credential
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Credential \Cre*den"tial\ (kr[-e]*d[e^]n"shal), a. [Cf. It. credenziale, fr. LL. credentia. See Credence.] Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting.
Their credential letters on both sides.
--Camden.
Credential \Cre*den"tial\, n. [Cf. It. credenziale.]
That which gives a title to credit or confidence.
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pl. Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate.
The committee of estates excepted against the credentials of the English commissioners.
--Whitelocke.Had they not shown undoubted credentials from the Divine Person who sent them on such a message.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"that which entitles to credit," 1756, probably a back-formation from credentials. Earlier in English as an adjective, "confirming, corroborating" (late 15c.). As a verb, "provide with credentials," by 1828 (implied in dredentialed).\n\n
Wiktionary
of, pertaining to or entitling to credit or authority n. (label en chiefly in the plural) documentary evidence that a person has certain status or privileges v
to furnish with #Noun
WordNet
n. a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts [syn: certificate, certification, credentials]
Wikipedia
A credential is an attestation of qualification, competence, or authority issued to an individuated by a third party with a relevant'' or de facto authority or assumed competence to do so.
Examples of credentials include academic diplomas, academic degrees, certifications, security clearances, identification documents, badges, passwords, user names, keys, powers of attorney, and so on. Sometimes publications, such as scientific papers or books, may be viewed as similar to credentials by some people, especially if the publication was peer reviewed or made in a well-known journal or reputable publisher.
Usage examples of "credential".
Harvard graduate identifying a brother alumnus, and in the face of such credentials Simon relaxed.
Rather anomalous evidence was quite often the center of serious, longstanding controversy within the very heart of elite scientific circles, with advocates holding scientific credentials and positions just as prestigious as those of the opponents.
All employees should be trained to immediately report any request for authentication credentials, such as a daily code or password, made under suspicious circumstances.
Raymond Zilinskas is a consultant to my firm on biochem issues, selected because of his impeccable credentials as a United Nations weapons inspector and senior scientist at the Center for Nonproliferation Research at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
I spoke enough Spanish and Buddy had enough creamery credentials that we talked them out of an E tank of nitrous.
Karma would, it was reasoned by Mack and his associates, weigh heavily with a jury not only because it came from a white, grass-roots, eminently credentialled American, but because it was also the faith he personally practised and espoused.
Credential doctrines disaccorded with a pervasive staleness and spiritual claustrophobia.
Convincing credentials vouching for Limbeck as representative plenipotentiary of the Io Trading Trust gained him immediate admittance.
Mary and Mollen showed their credentials to the guard in movements that betrayed an infinity of repetitions.
Atlanta on the Dixie Express, and credentials identifying me as an attorney with the Louis Piquett firm.
Mabry extended his credentials to the waiting cop, a man in full armor under his coveralls, with a stunstick at his belt and a pellet gun slung across his shoulder.
Should Tenas grow to youth, manhood, old age, and have no Totem Pole to point to as a credential of being the honorable son of a long line of honorable sons?
I showed my credentials and went up to the battle screen, which had been set up in open air at the edge of shadow from some tall variform oaks.
As Wilk says, science fiction is definitely coming up in the academic world, and a man with those credentials might be able to actually make a living, to say nothing of getting respect.
An extreme autonomist and anticentralist, a strong Union Nationaliste of the Duplessis vintage, his credentials gave him some standing in the provincial Party, but they made him anathema to large portions of the rest of Canada.