Receipt
Common misspellings for receipt:
Definition of receipt:
- To sign a written acknowledgment of having received goods, money, & c.
- The act of receiving; the place of receiving; reception; that which is received; prescription; acknowledgment of money or goods received.
- A written acknowledgment of having received goods or money, & c.; in Scrip., place of receiving; written instructions for compounding certain ingredients, as for making a cake, pastry, a cordial, for tanning leather, & c.
Usage examples for receipt
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I made my bargain with the landlord, and paid a month's rent in advance for which he gave me a receipt. The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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Well, then, bring me those articles to- morrow, by one o'clock precisely; I will take charge of them, and give you a receipt. Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat
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And what to do with them at the funeral was something which had been troubling us ever since the receipt of the dispatch. The Comstock Club by Charles Carroll Goodwin
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On the third day after its receipt Sir Thomas did manage with much difficulty to get a reply written. Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope