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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

turning around their fortunes

"He is credited with turning around the company's fortunes."
1. be credited with...: Is this always used positively? Did a GOOD thing.
2. turning around: Which way did he turn them around? For the bad
or for the good?

He is praised because he has brought the company's condition
from bad to good?

Thank you.
  

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Not so much that he is praised, but that he is the person understood/acknowledged with accomplishing this. Yes, "credited with" is usually for good things.

  • Not so much that he is praised, but that he is the person understood/acknowledged with accomplishing this.
  • Yes, "credited with" is usually for good things.
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Not so much that he is praised, but that he is the person understood/acknowledged with accomplishing this.

Yes, "credited with" is usually for good things.

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