"credit limit" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: credit limits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} credit limit (plural credit limits)
  1. (finance, banking) The maximum amount of credit that a financial institution or other lender will extend to a debtor for a particular line of credit. Categories (topical): Banking, Finance Synonyms: credit line, line of credit Translations (maximum amount of credit): 信用額度 (Chinese Mandarin), 信用额度 (xìnyòng édù) (Chinese Mandarin), 貸款額度 (Chinese Mandarin), 贷款额度 (dàikuǎn édù) (Chinese Mandarin), luottoraja (Finnish), limite (de crédito) [masculine] (Portuguese)

Inflected forms

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