RECEIPTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does receipts mean? 

• RECEIPTS (noun)
  The noun RECEIPTS has 1 sense:

1. the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

  Familiarity information: RECEIPTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECEIPTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The entire amount of income before any deductions are made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

gross; receipts; revenue

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

amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)

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

box office (total admission receipts for an entertainment)

gate (total admission receipts at a sports event)

 Context examples 

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)

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)

On the inside of the cover was a paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and ‘Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register’ written beneath.

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

After some search, it was found in the box, at the bottom of a horse's nose-bag; wherein (besides hay) there was discovered an old gold watch, with chain and seals, which Mr. Barkis had worn on his wedding-day, and which had never been seen before or since; a silver tobacco-stopper, in the form of a leg; an imitation lemon, full of minute cups and saucers, which I have some idea Mr. Barkis must have purchased to present to me when I was a child, and afterwards found himself unable to part with; eighty-seven guineas and a half, in guineas and half-guineas; two hundred and ten pounds, in perfectly clean Bank notes; certain receipts for Bank of England stock; an old horseshoe, a bad shilling, a piece of camphor, and an oyster-shell.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The researchers analyze the presence of BPA and BPS in the thermal paper receipts we use on a daily basis, as well as the hormone‑like activities of those receipts.

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

Mars will continue to be in Sagittarius during the first half, until February 16, indicating that you may be focused on getting your receipts ready for your accountant who will file your taxes soon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

However, only half of the receipts collected in France presented BPA, which confirms that the French Government took action to the reduction of the use of that chemical compound in thermal paper since 2014, with the aim of protecting the population.

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

Start gathering your receipts to give to your accountant if you haven’t done so already.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Currently, there is great concern about the unnoticed exposure of general population to bisphenol A. The industry has sought alternatives for gradually replacing BPA in most of its applications, as is the case of the thermal paper used in tickets and receipts.

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

You may be gathering up your receipts for your accountant to prepare for filing your tax return or, if you are getting married, to decide how you will handle household finances.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)