receipt

A paper or electronic record showing that money or goods have been received, usually as proof of payment.

• Can I have a receipt, please?
• She kept the receipt in her wallet.
• The shop emails receipts to its customers.

How to use it: receipt for something (Keep the receipt for your new shoes.)

Common phrases: keep a receipt, receipt for something, ask for a receipt

The act of getting something that has been sent or given to you.

• Please acknowledge receipt of this letter.
• Payment is due on receipt of the goods.
• They confirmed receipt of my application yesterday.

How to use it: receipt of something (Please confirm receipt of these documents.); on/upon receipt of something (We will reply upon receipt of your application.)

Similar words: reception

Common phrases: on receipt of, acknowledge receipt, receipt of something

An amount of money received by a business or organization, usually described in the plural.

• Daily receipts reached five thousand pounds.
• The company reported higher sales receipts this year.
• Tax receipts fell during the recession.

How to use it: receipts from something (Receipts from ticket sales covered the costs.)

Similar words: takings, revenue, income

Common phrases: gross receipts, tax receipts, cash receipts, receipt from something

To provide a written record confirming that money or goods have been received.

• The cashier receipted the payment.
• Please receipt every cash donation.
• The warehouse receipted the goods when they arrived.

Common phrases: receipt a payment, receipt delivered goods, receipt a donation

To write or stamp on a bill to show that it has been paid.

• The clerk receipted the bill.
• Please receipt the invoice after payment.
• All these bills have been receipted.

Similar words: mark as paid

Common phrases: receipt a bill, receipt an invoice