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FULL FAITH AND CREDIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does full faith and credit mean? 

FULL FAITH AND CREDIT (noun)
  The noun FULL FAITH AND CREDIT has 1 sense:

1. a guarantee to pay interest and principal on debt; usually issued by the United States Treasuryplay

  Familiarity information: FULL FAITH AND CREDIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FULL FAITH AND CREDIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A guarantee to pay interest and principal on debt; usually issued by the United States Treasury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("full faith and credit" is a kind of...):

guarantee (an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true)


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