receipt

plural receipts

1. countableuncountableThe act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.

   A balance payable on receipt of the goods.

   1 more example

   Your Grace shall understand that at the receipt of your letter I am very sick

   c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]

2. countableobsoleteuncountableThe fact of having received a blow, injury etc.

   And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite[…].

   1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xvi”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VI, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC

3. countablein pluraluncountableA quantity or amount received; takings.

   This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production!

4. countableuncountableA written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
5. countableplural normallyuncountable(A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.

   So, Andy, if you ask me nicely, I might produce a receipt that is my marriage certificate.

   2020, “Reunion Part 1”, in The Real Housewives of Atlanta, season 12, episode 24

6. Internetbroadlycountableplural normallyuncountable(A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing.

   "Oh yes, the Internet trolls went there, and we've got the receipts".

   2020 December 1, Lindsey Wisniewski, “Darius Slay's Wikipedia page edited to claim DK Metcalf as his father”, in NBC Sports

7. archaiccountableuncountableelsewhere since middle of 20th centuryA recipe, instructions, prescription.

   She had a receipt to make white hair black.

   1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

   2 more examples

   Nor were we without guests: sometimes farmer Flamborough, our talkative neighbour, and often the blind piper, would pay us a visit, and taste our gooseberry wine; for the making of which we had lost neither the receipt nor the reputation.

   1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield

   Have you never eaten them, either preserved or candied […] if you will allow me, Sir, I shall be very happy to send the receipt to your housekeeper.

   1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

8. countableobsoleteuncountableA receptacle.
9. countableobsoleteuncountableA revenue office.
10. countableobsoleteuncountableReception, as an act of hospitality.

    thy kind receipt of me

    1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC

11. countableobsoleteuncountableCapability of receiving; capacity.

    It has become a place of great receipt.

    1644, John Evelyn, diary entry 21 October, 1644

12. countableobsoleteuncountableA recess; a retired place.

present singular third person receipts · participle present receipting · participle past receipted · past receipted

1. To give or write a receipt (for something).

   to receipt delivered goods

2. To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.

   to receipt a bill