# credit (financial)

a value that is added to an account and is a sign that people gave something

- Computed level: L12 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: financial  ·  Arena: credit

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [value](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-value.worth), [account](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-account.financial), [add](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-add.operation), [give](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-give.transfer), [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [sign](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sign.symbolic)

**Through:** 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
- In 2008, Citigroup received $45 billion in U.S. Treasury TARP funds after posting record losses. *(economics)*
- The 2011 Fukushima reactor automatically credited emergency cooling systems with power reserves during grid failure. *(engineering)*
- GitHub credits open-source contributors by displaying their commit counts on public profiles. *(computing)*

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