Definition of "noncredit" []

• Of, relating to, or constituting an educational course that does not offer credit toward an academic degree. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And they have to classify the loss as "noncredit," meaning it stems from external forces like reduced liquidity rather than the weakness of the investment."
• "No previous knowledge of wine is necessary and the session is non-degree and noncredit."
• "She commenced painting full-time, though she also took noncredit graduate courses in the history of art at Columbia University, one of them with the distinguished scholar Meyer Schapiro."