credential

At one point in time, there was a code of conduct: creed and credential.

Students with more experience do better--but need the credential less.

Now, of course, I don't think that education is only a credential.

Especially to the extent that this helps drive a lot of additional spending on said credential.

Felix Salmon argues that college is an increasingly necessary credential.

They enclose a letter which is to serve their victim as a mark of identification or credential when he comes on to purchase.

Sir Alain bound the emissary with cords, like a felon spy, and sent him and his papers and credential signets unto King Stephen.

After the usual reverences, the chancellor demanded his credential letters, which he read aloud.

It seems to me that that attitude is the only credential which any Christian mission can give for its existence.

“Your visitor will present to you the missing half of the enclosed card as credential,” he wrote.