Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PA-PER-CRED'IT
PA-PER-CRED'IT, n.
- Evidences of debt; promissory notes, &c. passing current in commercial transactions.
- Notes or bills emitted by public authority, promising the payment of money. The revolution in North America was carried on by means of paper-credit.
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