

verb To mark a bill as having been paidįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.verb To give or write a receipt (for something).noun A recipe, instructions, prescription.noun A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.noun in the plural A quantity or amount received takings.noun obsolete The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.noun The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.noun 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.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered an acknowledgment of money paid.noun A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined a recipe.noun obsolete Hence, a recess a retired place.noun obsolete Capability of receiving capacity.noun obsolete Reception, as an act of hospitality.transitive verb To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping.intransitive verb To give a receipt, as for money paid.

See reception.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun Power of receiving or taking in extent of accommodation fitness for holding or containing.place for the reception of persons or things a place where anything is received or taken in a station or a receptacle for lodgment. noun Reception admittance a granting of entrance or admission.noun A formula or prescription for the making of something, or the production of some effect a statement of that which is to be taken or done for some purpose: distinguished from recipe by the common restriction of that word to medical or related uses: as, a receipt for a pudding a receipt for gaining popularity.noun A written acknowledgment of having received something specified, with date, source, signature, and such other particulars as the case requires.noun The act or state of receiving by transfer or transmission a taking of that which is delivered or passed over a getting or obtaining: as, the receipt of money or of a letter he is in the receipt of a good income.noun A thing received that which is received by transfer the amount or quantity of what is received from other hands: as, the receipts of cotton at a port.To give a receipt for acknowledge in writing the payment of: as, to receipt a bill (usually by writing upon the bill “Received payment” and the creditor's signature).intransitive verb To give or write a receipt for (money paid or goods or services delivered).intransitive verb To mark (a bill) as having been paid.noun A written acknowledgment that a specified article, sum of money, or shipment of merchandise has been received.noun The fact of being or having been received.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
