credit exposure vs amount

credit exposure and amount both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
credit exposure	Yes	No	No	No
amount	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, amount is a hypernym of credit exposure; that is, amount is a word with a broader meaning than credit exposure:

credit exposure: the amount of money a bank has lent and may lose if it is not paid back.
amount: a quantity of money

Other hypernyms of credit exposure include amount of money, sum, sum of money.

credit exposure (noun)	amount (noun)
the amount of money a bank has lent and may lose if it is not paid back.	how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
	the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion
	a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
	a quantity of money

credit exposure (verb)	amount (verb)
	to measure up to in kind or quality
	add up in number or quantity
	be tantamount or equivalent to