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took credit

took credit is the simple past 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 took credit

What is took credit the simple past of?
Took credit is the simple past of take credit.

Words near took credit in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: took 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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