Definition of "credit line" []

• A line of copy acknowledging the source or origin of a news dispatch, published article, or other work. (noun)
• The maximum amount of credit to be extended to a customer. Also called line of credit. (noun)

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• ""I'm sure his credit line must be unsnarled by now," Chandris put in before Kosta could answer, tossing the screwdriver back into the tool tray in disgust."
• "Assuming that the Daviees hadn't been lying when they said angels couldn't be traded for cash — and she'd seen no evidence that they had lied about that — she was going to have to somehow get the angel dumped into a credit line that she could then convert to cash."
• "And the next skeeter to Seraph would include an official order to the Angelmass Studies Institute that Kosta's current credit line be indefinitely suspended."