Topic: OFFICIALS
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| Date: | 1600-1700 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | accréditer, from crédit; CREDIT1 |
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ac‧cred‧it‧ed
1 having official approval to do something, especially because of having reached an acceptable standard : an accredited counsellor an accredited language school
an accredited counselloran accredited language school2PGO if a government official is accredited to another country, they are sent to that country to officially represent their government there :
—accredit verb [transitive]
—accreditation noun [uncountable]
noun [uncountable]