credit rating agency

credit rating agency
credit rating agency UK US noun [C] (also credit ratings agency, also credit agency)
FINANCE a company that calculates credit ratings and provides them to financial organizations and other companies: »

Standard & Poor's became the second credit rating agency to cut the company's credit rating after Moody's did the same on Monday.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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