receipt

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  1. noun The act of receiving: We are in receipt of your letter.
  2. noun The fact of being or having been received: They denied receipt of the shipment.
  3. noun A quantity or amount received. Often used in the plural: cash receipts.
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  • He got a frown from his Chief Inspector and a recommendation to use the good old English word receipt, if that was what he meant. —  She Came Back - Patricia Wentworth - aka The Traveller Returns - Miss Silver 09 - 1945
  • Put the bottle in a paper bag from the liquor store, adding a receipt is a nice touch as well. —  Poisons
  • And sometimes they conveniently write a starting time on the receipt which is WAY before you arrive, just so they can charge you more! —  Giddy Tigers
  • But with only 15\% of us having the pluck to ask the gift giver for a receipt, a wasteful 39\% of unwanted presents will be left on the shelf to gather dust - representing £858m worth of presents. —  Releases feed from RealWire
  • Either way, a receipt is automatically sent to the customer via email or SMS. —  iTWire - Latest Headlines
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  1. Middle English receite, from Old North French, from Medieval Latin recepta, medical prescription, money received, from Latin, feminine past participle of recipere, to receive; see receive.

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  1. Formerly also receit (the p being inserted in imitation of the L. original, and the proper spelling being receit, like conceit, deceit); (a) from Middle English receit, receyt, receite, receipt, recipe, from Anglo-French receite, Old French recete, recepte, reçoite, French recette =Provencal recepta =Spanish receta =Portuguese receita =Italian ricetta, feminine, receipt, recipe, from Middle Latin recepta, feminine, receipt, recipe, money received, a treasury, a right of pasture, literally (sc. res, a thing) ‘a thing received,’ feminine of Latin receptus, past participle of recipere, receive; (b) in defs. 5 and 6, also reset (see reset), from Middle English recet, reset, resset, rescet, resate, from Old French recet, receit, recept, reset, reçoit, rechet, rechiet, etc., =Spanish recepto =Italian ricetto, masculine, a retreat, refuge, abode, asylum (see recheat), from Latin receptus, masculine, a receiving, place of retreat, refuge, from recipere, past participle receptus, receive: see receive. Cf. reset and recheat, doublets of receipt; cf. also recept.
  2. Also in technical legal use reset (see reset); from Middle English recetten, reseten; from the noun: see receipt, n.
 

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