receipt

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11
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13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈsiːt/
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/ɹɪˈsiːt/ · /ɹɪˈsit/ · [ɹɪˈsɪit] · [ɹɪˈsɪ̈it]

Definition of receipt

14 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
    “A balance payable on receipt of the goods.”
    “Your Grace shall understand that at the receipt of your letter I am very sick”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
    “A balance payable on receipt of the goods.”
    “Your Grace shall understand that at the receipt of your letter I am very sick”
  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
    “And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite[…].”
  3. (countable, in-plural, uncountable)A quantity or amount received; takings.
    “This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production!”
  4. (countable, uncountable)A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
  5. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable)(A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.
    “So, Andy, if you ask me nicely, I might produce a receipt that is my marriage certificate.”
  6. (Internet, broadly, countable, plural-normally, uncountable)(A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing.
    “"Oh yes, the Internet trolls went there, and we've got the receipts".”
  7. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A recipe, instructions, prescription.
    “She had a receipt to make white hair black.”
    “Nor were we without guests: sometimes farmer Flamborough, our talkative neighbour, and often the blind piper, would pay us a visit, and taste our gooseberry wine; for the making of which we had lost neither the receipt nor the reputation.”
    “Have you never eaten them, either preserved or candied […] if you will allow me, Sir, I shall be very happy to send the receipt to your housekeeper.”
  8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A receptacle.
  9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A revenue office.
  10. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Reception, as an act of hospitality.
    “thy kind receipt of me”
  11. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Capability of receiving; capacity.
    “It has become a place of great receipt.”
  12. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A recess; a retired place.

verb

  1. To give or write a receipt (for something).
    “to receipt delivered goods”
  2. To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.
    “to receipt a bill”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English receyt, 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…

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From Middle English receyt, 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 Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”). The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root. Doublet of recept and recipe. False cognate of Persian رسید (resid) (whence Urdu رسید (rasīd)).

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