What is, please, the meaning of the phrase "to lay up credit" or "a lay up credit"?
Thanks beforehand.
Thanks beforehand.
"lay up credit"
I've never heard of the phrase, to be honest, and it sounds quite nonsensical. A Google search didn't help the matter.
Do you mean "shore up" instead? In that case, it means to strengthen or reinforce. If not, where did you hear/read this?
Do you mean "shore up" instead? In that case, it means to strengthen or reinforce. If not, where did you hear/read this?
I read this in a novel. The phrase was:
"Here in the Market you can barter and lay up credit.”
It is often met in the Internet (alternative spelling - "lay-up credit"), but I am not able to understand its meaning.
http://www.google.ru/search?hl=ru&newwindow=1&q=%22lay+up+credit%22&btnG=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA&lr=&aq=f&oq=
"Here in the Market you can barter and lay up credit.”
It is often met in the Internet (alternative spelling - "lay-up credit"), but I am not able to understand its meaning.
http://www.google.ru/search?hl=ru&newwindow=1&q=%22lay+up+credit%22&btnG=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA&lr=&aq=f&oq=
It's a wonder what a rested mind can do for a person :) I believe "to lay up credit" means to do something now without reward in anticipation for reward at a later time, especially in the religion sense of doing good deeds for eternal reward in heaven.
to lay up something means to save something, store it away for a future time. If barter is a part of the economy then maybe this market had primitive banking services?