scrip

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At 11.30 am, the scrip was at Rs 36.60, up Rs 12.85 or 54.11 per cent on the NSE.

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  1. noun Paper money issued for temporary emergency use.
  2. noun A small scrap of paper, especially with a short list or schedule written on it.
  3. noun A provisional certificate entitling the holder to a fractional share of stock or of other jointly owned property.
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  • They seemed moving pictures with their staffs, scrip, and scallop-shell capes, returning from Rome. —  James Fenimore Cooper
  • Incidentally Rs 431 is the one year high price of the scrip which is now trading at Rs 93, a value erosion of around 80\% for BCCL on its initial transaction. —  VCCircle News
  • At 11.30 am, the scrip was at Rs 36.60, up Rs 12.85 or 54.11 per cent on the NSE. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • At 1: 10 pm, the scrip was at Rs 33.50, up Rs 9.75 on the NSE. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • At 3 pm, the scrip was at Rs 34.60, up Rs 10.85 or 45.68 per cent on the NSE. —  The Times of India
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  1. Perhaps alteration of script.
  2. Short for subscription receipt, receipt for a portion of a loan.
  3. Middle English scrippe.

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  1. from Middle English scrippe, schrippe, from Icelandic skreppa, a scrip, bag, = Old Swedish skreppa, Swedish dial. skräppa, a bag, a scrip, = Norwegian skreppa, a knapsack, = Middle Dutch scharpe, schaerpe, scerpe, a scrip, pilgrim's wallet, = Low German schrap, a scrip, = Old High German scharpe, a pocket, perhaps akin to Old High German scirbi, Middle High German schirbe, scherbe, German scherbe = Dutch scherf, a shred, shiver, scrap, shard: see scrap and scarp, scarf.
  2. A corruption of script, apparently by vague association with scrip: see script.
 

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