accredit
Americanverb (used with object)
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to provide or send with credentials; designate officially.
to accredit an envoy.
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to certify (a school, college, or the like) as meeting all formal official requirements of academic excellence, curriculum, facilities, etc.
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to make authoritative, creditable, or reputable; sanction.
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to regard as true; believe.
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to ascribe or attribute to (usually followed bywith ).
He was accredited with having said it.
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to attribute or ascribe; consider as belonging.
an invention accredited to Edison.
verb
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to ascribe or attribute
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to give official recognition to; sanction; authorize
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to certify or guarantee as meeting required standards
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to furnish or send (an envoy, etc) with official credentials
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to appoint (someone) as an envoy, etc
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to pass (a candidate) for university entrance on school recommendation without external examination
there are six accrediting schools in the area
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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preaccreditverb (used with object)
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reaccreditverb (used with object)
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accreditationnoun
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accreditableadjective
Conjugated Forms
Present
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have accreditedperfect
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has accreditedperfect 3rd person singular
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am accreditingprogressive 1st person singular
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accreditssingular 3rd person
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has been accreditingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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have been accreditingperfect progressive
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is accreditingprogressive 3rd person singular
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accreditingparticiple
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are accreditingprogressive
Past
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had accreditedperfect
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were accreditingprogressive plural
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accreditedparticiple
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accreditedsimple
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was accreditingprogressive singular
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had been accreditingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of accredit
First recorded in 1610–20; earlier acredit, from Middle French acrediter; see ac-, credit
Example Sentences
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Last year, Florida and five other states established the Commission for Public Higher Education to accredit their public university systems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Vienna has so far refused to accredit Taliban-appointed diplomats, although the Austrian government has held direct talks with Taliban authorities over deportations this year.
From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025
But scores more accredit Piker for either their radicalization or their de-radicalization.
From Slate • Feb. 18, 2025
The exams regulator Ofqual will review and accredit the syllabus before it can be taught in schools and colleges.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2023
The peasantry of Winchester and its neighbourhood for the most part accredit the story, and I see no reason for disbelieving the first part of it myself.
From Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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