Receipt Definition

rĭ-sēt
receipts
noun
receipts
A receiving or being received.
Webster's New World
The fact of being or having been received.
They denied receipt of the shipment.
American Heritage

Recipe.

Webster's New World
The thing or amount received, as money taken in by a business.
Webster's New World
A written acknowledgment that something, as goods, money, etc., has been received.
Webster's New World
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verb
receipts
To mark (a bill) paid.
Webster's New World
To write a receipt.
Webster's New World
To write a receipt for (goods, etc.)
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Receipt

Noun

Singular:
receipt
Plural:
receipts

Origin of Receipt

  • Recorded since c.1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite "receipt, recipe" (1304), altered (by influence of receit "he receives," from Vulgar Latin *recipit) from Old French recete, from Old French receptus, past participle of recipere, itself from re- 'back' + cipere (an alteration of capere 'to take')

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English receite from Old North French from Medieval Latin recepta medical prescription, money received from Latin feminine past participle of recipere to receive receive

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Receipt Sentence Examples

  • He ran down the receipt that was found in Byrne's car.

  • She looked more closely at the paper she'd just signed and flipped the page to the receipt he'd stapled there.

  • He carefully detailed the information on the torn sales receipt but made no comment.

  • On receipt of the counter-notice the promoters must either assent to the requirement contained in it, or abandon their notice to treat.

  • Further scruples as'to the oath required on the receipt of his half-pay reduced him to serious pecuniary straits (1791), and he divided his time between the open air and the workhouse, where he developed the idea that he had a special divine commission, and wrote to the king and the parliament to that effect.

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Words Starting With

RREREC

Words Ending With

TPTIPT

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