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taken credit

taken credit is the past participle of take credit.

Meaning of take credit

Verb

take credit (third-person singular simple present takes credit, present participle taking credit, simple past took credit, past participle taken credit)

  1. (idiomatic) To accept or acknowledge approval, praise, recognition for something, regardless of its merit or worthiness.
    • take all the credit

Questions about taken credit

What is taken credit the past participle of?
Taken credit is the past participle of take credit.

Words near taken credit in the dictionary

  1. taken coals to Newcastle
  2. taken cold
  3. taken command
  4. taken control
  5. taken cover
  6. taken credit
  7. taken credit for
  8. taken delight in
  9. taken delivery
  10. taken down
  11. taken down a notch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taken credit (page history and authors); take credit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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