Meaning

1 senses

  1. To furnish with credentials

Examples

22 sentences

  1. Tom certainly has the right credentials.

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  2. Tom has impressive credentials.

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  3. Tom has credentials.

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  4. Tom showed his credentials.

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  5. Tom clearly has the credentials.

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Origin

From Medieval Latin crēdentiālis (“giving authority”), from Latin crēdentia (“trust”).

From Medieval Latin crēdentiālis (“giving authority”), from Latin crēdentia (“trust”).

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Forms

credentials, credentialing, credentialed, credentialed
Base formcredential · to credential
3rd person singularcredentials
Present participlecredentialing
Past simplecredentialed / credentialled
Past participlecredentialed / credentialled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycredential
he, she, itcredentials

Past simpleLesson

all personscredentialed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave credentialed
he, she, ithas credentialed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill credential

Word family

1 related words
Derivedrecredential

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
creatorB1creatureA2credencecredibilityC1credibleC1creditA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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