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Tags: payment instruments
Categories: Economics & Finance
A credit card is a payment card issued to users as a system of payment. It allows the cardholder to pay for goods and services based on the holder’s promise to pay for them. The issuer of the card creates a revolving account and grants a line of credit to the consumer (or the user) from which the user can borrow money for payment to a merchant or as a cash advance to the user.
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card)
