receipt

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Recorded since c.1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite "receipt, recipe" (1304), altered (by influence of receit "he receives," from Vulgar Latin *recipit) from Old French recete, from Old French receptus, past participle of recipere, itself from re- 'back' + cipere (an alteration of capere 'to take')

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receipt (plural receipts)

  1. The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received
  2. (obsolete) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VI:
      And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite [...].
  3. (in the plural) A quantity or amount received; takings
    This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production!
  4. A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received
  5. A recipe, instructions, prescription
  6. (obsolete) A receptacle
  7. (obsolete) A revenue office

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receipt (third-person singular simple present receipts, present participle receipting, simple past and past participle receipted)

  1. To give or write a receipt (for something)
  2. To mark a bill as having been paid

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