VOUCHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voucher mean? 

• VOUCHER (noun)
  The noun VOUCHER has 3 senses:

1. someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement

2. a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure

3. a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed

  Familiarity information: VOUCHER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOUCHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

verifier; voucher

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

admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter (a person who backs a politician or a team etc.)

Derivation:

vouch (give surety or assume responsibility)

vouch (give personal assurance; guarantee)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A document that serves as evidence of some expenditure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

document; papers; written document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

coupon; voucher

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

commercial document; commercial instrument (a document of or relating to commerce)

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

book token (a gift voucher that can be exchanged for books costing up to an amount given on the voucher)

luncheon voucher; meal ticket (coupon redeemable at a restaurant and entitling the holder to a meal)

twofer (a coupon that allows the holder to purchase two items (as two tickets to a play) for the price of one)

 Context examples 

The highest tax was upon men who are the greatest favourites of the other sex, and the assessments, according to the number and nature of the favours they have received; for which, they are allowed to be their own vouchers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Thorpe's interest in the family, by his sister's approaching connection with one of its members, and his own views on another (circumstances of which he boasted with almost equal openness), seemed sufficient vouchers for his truth; and to these were added the absolute facts of the Allens being wealthy and childless, of Miss Morland's being under their care, and—as soon as his acquaintance allowed him to judge—of their treating her with parental kindness.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)