take credit
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edittake credit (third-person singular simple present takes credit, present participle taking credit, simple past took credit, past participle taken credit)
- To accept or acknowledge approval, praise, recognition for something, regardless of its merit or worthiness. [with for]
- take all the credit
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edit- “take the credit”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “take credit”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “take-credit-for”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.