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receipt


re·ceipt  (r-st)
n.
1.
a. The act of receiving: We are in receipt of your letter.
b. The fact of being or having been received: They denied receipt of the shipment.
2. A quantity or amount received. Often used in the plural: cash receipts.
3. A written acknowledgment that a specified article, sum of money, or shipment of merchandise has been received.
4. A recipe.
v. re·ceipt·ed, re·ceipt·ing, re·ceipts
v.tr.
1. To mark (a bill) as having been paid.
2. To give or write a receipt for (money paid or goods or services delivered).
v.intr.
To give a receipt.

[Middle English receite, from Old North French, from Medieval Latin recepta, medical prescription, money received, from Latin, feminine past participle of recipere, to receive; see receive.]


receipt  /rsit/  n. [U] a piece of paper showing that a bill is paid: I bought a hat and the clerk gave me a receipt.
v. [T] to make a receipt for s.o.: The clerk receipted the sale in case I need to return the coat.

Thesaurus: receipt sales slip, sales ticket. receipt

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