•credit report (document containing data on a borrower's credit standing) · credit, credit rating (person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their credit report)
köken: From Chinese, according to the Vocabulario de la lengua tagala by Fr. Noceda and Sanlucar, possibly from Hokkien 放數 /放数 (pàng-siàu, “to buy or sell on credit”). See also Hokkien 便 (pân, “advantageous”) and Hokkien 投 (tâu, “to send”).