letter of credit

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letter of credit ‎(plural letters of credit)

1. (finance, banking) A document, used primarily in trade finance and issued generally by a financial institution, in which the institution promises to pay debts up to a certain limit to be acquired by the beneficiary against delivery of documents specified in the letter.

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• (trade finance document): documentary credit, LC, L/C

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trade finance document

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信用證 (zh), 信用证 (zh) ‎(xìnyòngzhèng), 信用狀 (zh), 信用状 (zh) ‎(xìnyòngzhuàng)

• Finnish: remburssi (fi)
• French: lettre de crédit (fr) f

• Greek: τραπεζική πίστωση f ‎(trapezikí pístosi)
• Hungarian: hitellevél
• Portuguese: carta de crédito (pt)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can