{
  "id": "credit.financial",
  "term": "credit",
  "sense": "financial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "credit",
  "domain": "financial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a value that is added to an account and is a sign that people gave something",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "value.worth",
      "account.financial",
      "add.operation",
      "give.transfer",
      "people.social",
      "sign.symbolic"
    ],
    "interaction": "When value is added to an account, it becomes a sign that people gave something",
    "novel_properties": [
      "evidence of transfer",
      "social recognition of contribution",
      "positive account adjustment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2008, Citigroup received $45 billion in U.S. Treasury TARP funds after posting record losses.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Fukushima reactor automatically credited emergency cooling systems with power reserves during grid failure.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "GitHub credits open-source contributors by displaying their commit counts on public profiles.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "value.worth",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "add.operation",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "credit",
    "credited",
    "crediting",
    "credits"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added give.transfer, people.social, and sign.symbolic to align components with definition. Definition was correct; components were incomplete."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-credit.financial"
}