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

1. 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  The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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