receipt

noun

1. 1

   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. 2

   obsoleteThe 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. 3

   A quantity or amount received; takings.

   This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production!

4. 4

   A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.

5. 5

   (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. 6

   (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. 7

   archaicA 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.

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8. 8

   obsoleteA receptacle.

9. 9

   obsoleteA revenue office.

10. 10

    obsoleteReception, as an act of hospitality.

    thy kind receipt of me

11. 11

    obsoleteCapability of receiving; capacity.

    It has become a place of great receipt.

12. 12

    obsoleteA recess; a retired place.

verb

1. 1

   To give or write a receipt (for something).

   to receipt delivered goods

2. 2

   To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.

   to receipt a bill

Forms

plural

receipts

past tense

receipted

past participle

receipted

present participle

receipting

third person singular

receipts