credit line

English

Noun

credit line (plural credit lines)

1. (publishing) A line of printed text attached to written material, an image, illustration, or the like, which identifies the author, photographer, or other source.

   Coordinate term: attribution

   • 1963, Earl Ingerson, "Geological Processes," (Review of Physical Geochemistry by F. Gordon Smith), Science, New Series, vol. 141, no. 3576, p. 146,

     Diagrams for ten systems not listed in the table are given, mostly without any credit line or reference in the text or in the legend.

2. (finance, banking) Synonym of line of credit.

Translations

line of printed text

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 榮譽行／荣誉行 (róngyùháng)

• Finnish: lähdeviittaus
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

line of credit — see line of credit