cred

short for "CREDibility" (repect, reputation)

TRANSLATION

Glaubwürdigkeit, Vertrauenswürdigkeit

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"Queen's street CRED wins over another million-strong crowd - For the second day running an estimated 1 million people of all ages and nationalities packed central London in an undeniable expression of the affection in which the Queen is still held by many."

(Paul Kelso - The Guardian - Wednesday June 5, 2002)

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know?

cred

This shortform does actually have three meanings in English, in spoken English the most common of which is nr 1 below.

(1) Cred = Credibility (colloquial)
(2) CRED = Credit (banking & finance)
(3) CRED = Center for Research on Economic Development (economics)

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