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receipt definition

re·ceipt (ri sēt′)

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

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

  1. to mark (a bill) paid
  2. ☆ 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.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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