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credit bureau

American  

noun

  1. a firm that investigates the creditworthiness of and assigns a credit rating to a client's customers or potential customers.


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The credit bureau reported earnings of $11.14 a share, compared with $6.59 a share last year.

From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026

It doesn’t matter to the credit bureau whether it’s $90 or $9,000.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026

“The timely repayment of a consolidation loan that reports to your credit bureau is more beneficial to you in that area than an invisible batch of buy-now-pay-later accounts,” McClary said.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026

Under the new program, both fees are charged for scores from each credit bureau.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

It is a perfectly justified and consistent thought which recently led a large credit bureau to an effort to base its information on psychological analysis.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg

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