CREDIT BUREAU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does credit bureau mean? 

• CREDIT BUREAU (noun)
  The noun CREDIT BUREAU has 1 sense:

1. a private firm that maintains consumer credit data files and provides credit information to authorized users for a fee

  Familiarity information: CREDIT BUREAU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREDIT BUREAU (noun)

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Meaning:

A private firm that maintains consumer credit data files and provides credit information to authorized users for a fee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("credit bureau" is a kind of...):

agency (a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties)