RECEIPT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does receipt mean? 

• RECEIPT (noun)
  The noun RECEIPT has 2 senses:

1. the act of receiving

2. an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made

  Familiarity information: RECEIPT used as a noun is rare.

• RECEIPT (verb)
  The verb RECEIPT has 2 senses:

1. report the receipt of

2. mark or stamp as paid

  Familiarity information: RECEIPT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECEIPT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of receiving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

receipt; reception

Hypernyms ("receipt" is a kind of...):

acquiring; getting (the act of acquiring something)

Derivation:

receipt (report the receipt of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("receipt" is a kind of...):

acknowledgement; acknowledgment (a statement acknowledging something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "receipt"):

stub; ticket stub (a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt)

bill of lading; waybill (a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery)

pawn ticket (a pawnbroker's receipt for articles taken as security)

Derivation:

receipt (mark or stamp as paid)

receipt (report the receipt of)

• RECEIPT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they receipt    ... he / she / it receipts   
Past simple: receipted   
Past participle: receipted   
-ing form: receipting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Report the receipt of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

acknowledge; receipt

Context example:

The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper

Hypernyms (to "receipt" is one way to...):

communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across (transmit information)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

receipt (the act of receiving)

receipt (an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mark or stamp as paid

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "receipt" is one way to...):

check; check off; mark; mark off; tick; tick off (put a check mark on or near or next to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

receipt (an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made)

 Context examples 

On receipt of signed contract we shall be pleased to make you an advance on royalties of five thousand dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

More than 90% of the receipts collected in Brazil and Spain had BPA and presented hormone‑like, anti‑androgenic activity.

(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)

She promised Wright a receipt, and never sent it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then perhaps you will explain this receipted bill for thirteen guineas, paid by Mr. Godfrey Staunton last month to Dr. Leslie Armstrong, of Cambridge.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A characteristic that refers to the physical and organoleptic state of a biospecimen at time of its receipt at the laboratory.

(Biospecimen Condition, NCI Thesaurus)

"I'll be tellin' ye quick!" he answered, and, stepping down to his cabin, produced a receipt signed "Immanuel Hildesheim."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Come as soon as you can on receipt of this.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Three of them are receipted hay-dealers’ accounts.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In February, you will be determined to get your finances organized, and you may be calling your accountant to go over your receipts for tax preparation.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Data regarding the accountability of study drug, such as information on the receipt, dispensing, return, and packaging.

(Drug Accountability Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)