receipt

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
receipt/rɪˈsiːt/
noun
  • 1 the action of receiving something or the fact of its being received.

    ■ a written or printed acknowledgement of this.

    ■ (receipts) an amount of money received over a period by an organization.

  • 2 archaic a recipe.
verb (usu. as adj. receipted) mark (a bill) as paid.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. receite, from med. L. recepta ‘received’, fem. past part. of L. recipere.
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