credit rating

credit rating
An opinion as to the reliability of a person, natural or artificial, concerning ability and promptness in the payment of debts. The opinion may be one merely of reputation in the community but is usually one given by a professional credit-rating agency.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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