"credit note" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: credit notes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} credit note (plural credit notes)
  1. A commercial document issued by a seller to adjust downwards the amount of an invoice already issued, i.e. to cancel part or all of it. Wikipedia link: credit note Categories (topical): Accounting Synonyms: credit memo Translations (commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer to cancel part or all of an earlier invoice): dobropis [masculine] (Czech), creditnota [feminine] (Dutch), hyvityslasku (Finnish), note de crédit [feminine] (French), Gutschrift [feminine] (German), nóta sochair [masculine] (Irish), nota di credito [feminine] (Italian), nota kredytowa [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-credit_note-en-noun-O8foXAC1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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