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n. 1. a. The act of receiving: We are in receipt of your letter. b. The fact of being or having been received: They denied receipt of the shipment. 2. often receipts A quantity or amount received: cash receipts. 3. A written acknowledgment that a specified article, sum of money, or shipment of merchandise has been received. 4. A recipe. v. re·ceipt·ed, re·ceipt·ing, re·ceipts v.tr. 1. To mark (a bill) as having been paid. 2. To give or write a receipt for (money paid or goods or services delivered). v.intr. To give a receipt. [Middle English receite, from Old North French, from Medieval Latin recepta, medical prescription, money received, from Latin, feminine past participle of recipere, to receive; see RECEIVE.] |
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