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family credit

British

noun

(formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999

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This year, Parsons, 44 years old, locked the family credit card.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Tamira got dengue fever in Thailand, their family credit card got swallowed by a machine in Vietnam and all five of them got a sickness bug while staying in a hostel in the Philippines.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025

Three lots of Roy family credit cards were auctioned, but they won’t be accepted at your local supermarket.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

They are like foolish teenagers trusted with the family credit card.....any stupid expenditure to gain favor and standing with those whose attention they crave.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2018

Would, for the family credit we could add, that it was achieved by his brother!

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Charles Dickens

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