receipt
receipt definition
re·ceipt (ri sēt′)
noun
- Old-fashioned recipe
- a receiving or being received
- a written acknowledgment that something, as goods, money, etc., has been received
- the thing or amount received, as money taken in by a business
Etymology: altered (infl. by L) < ME receite < Anglo-Fr, for OFr recete < ML recepta < L, fem. of receptus, pp. of recipere: see receive
transitive verb
- to mark (a bill) paid
- ☆ to write a receipt for (goods, etc.)
intransitive verb
to write a receipt
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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