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takes credit

takes credit is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 takes credit

What is takes credit the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Takes credit is the third-person singular simple present indicative of take credit.

Words near takes credit in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: takes 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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