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/rɪsˈit/ /risˈit/ Listen

noun

Receipt n.

1.

The act of receiving; reception. "At the receipt of your letter."

2.

Reception, as an act of hospitality. (Obs.) "Thy kind receipt of me."

3.

Capability of receiving; capacity. (Obs.) "It has become a place of great receipt."

4.

Place of receiving. (Obs.) "He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom."

5.

Hence, a recess; a retired place. (Obs.) "In a retired receipt together lay."

6.

A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake. "She had a receipt to make white hair black."

7.

A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.

8.

That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.

Gross receipts. See under Gross, a.

verb

Receipt v. t. (past & past part. receipted; pres. part. receipting)

1.

To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.

2.

To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.

Receipt v. i. To give a receipt, as for money paid.

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Etymology of 'Receipt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Receipt" Quotes from Famous Books

... if she thought it necessary that he should see the sick woman at No. 10 Prickett's Lane before the morning. It was while he was pondering this matter in his mind that Mr Wentworth's heart jumped to his throat upon receipt, quite suddenly, without ...

— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

... on receipt of this information sufficiently expressed a revived sense that the incidence of Mr. Neigh on her path might have a meaning after all. Neigh had certainly said he was going to marry her, and now here he was come to ...

— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy

... endeavor to get the watch back for her," replied Mrs. Gordon, as she seated herself at a table and wrote a few lines on a piece of paper. "Here, my child, is a receipt for your month's rent. When Dr. Flynch comes for the money, you show him this, and he will be satisfied;" and ...

— Poor and Proud - or The Fortunes of Katy Redburn • Oliver Optic

... enjoy less the possession of an earthly good by every additional person to whom it was extended." You may not be aware of it yourself, most reverend Abraham, but you deny their freedom to the Catholics upon the same principle that Sarah your wife refuses to give the receipt for a ham or a gooseberry dumpling: she values her receipts, not because they secure to her a certain flavour, but because they remind her that her neighbours want it:- a feeling laughable in a priestess, shameful in a priest; ...

— Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays • Sydney Smith

... Reports came down the river that a firm of drovers were putting up a herd of cattle for delivery at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Their headquarters were at Belknap, a long day's ride above, on the Brazos; and immediately, on receipt of the news, George and I saddled, and started up the river. The elder Edwards was very anxious to sell his beef-cattle and a surplus of cow-horses, and we were commissioned to offer them to the drovers at prevailing prices. On arriving at Belknap we met the pioneer ...

— Reed Anthony, Cowman • Andy Adams

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