receipt
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1. The action of receiving something or the fact of its being received.
Those in receipt of social welfare are eligible.
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2. A written or printed statement acknowledging that something has been paid for or that goods have been received.
You will receive a receipt and acknowledgement by return.
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3. (receipts) An amount of money received during a particular period by an organization or business.
The huge receipts from capital gains tax in the late 1990s are gone.
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4. (receipts) Proof or evidence of something.
she had the receipts, and showed Rachel texts he had sent her
5. A recipe.
she spent hours in the kitchen, trying all sorts of receipts
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Verb
1. Mark (a bill) as paid.
one copy can be receipted and returned to you
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Origin
1. Late Middle English from Anglo-Norman French receite, from medieval Latin recepta ‘received’, feminine past participle of Latin recipere. The -p- was inserted in imitation of the Latin spelling.

