receipt

Receipt is defined as to accept something given to you or is a record of money being received.

(noun)

  1. An example of receipt is when someone hands you a box of chocolates and you take it.
  2. An example of receipt is a paper you get at the supermarket listing your groceries and what you paid for them.

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See receipt in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. Old-fashioned recipe
  2. a receiving or being received
  3. a written acknowledgment that something, as goods, money, etc., has been received
  4. the thing or amount received, as money taken in by a business

Origin: altered (infl. by L) < ME receite < Anglo-Fr, for OFr recete < ML recepta < L, fem. of receptus, pp. of recipere: see receive

transitive verb

  1. to mark (a bill) paid
  2. ☆ to write a receipt for (goods, etc.)

intransitive verb

to write a receipt

See receipt in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  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.
verb re·ceipt·ed, re·ceipt·ing, re·ceipts
verb, transitive
  1. To mark (a bill) as having been paid.
  2. To give or write a receipt for (money paid or goods or services delivered).
verb, intransitive
To give a receipt.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English receite

Origin: , from Old North French

Origin: , from Medieval Latin recepta, medical prescription, money received

Origin: , from Latin

Origin: , feminine past participle of recipere, to receive; see receive

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