1. receipt - Noun
2. receipt - Verb
The act of receiving; reception.
Reception, as an act of hospitality.
Capability of receiving; capacity.
Place of receiving.
Hence, a recess; a retired place.
A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.
A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.
That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.
To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.
To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.
To give a receipt, as for money paid.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt. Groucho Marx
What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather. Herman Melville
Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest,- which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice. John Ruskin
If you want a receipt for that popular mystery, Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon - Take all the remarkable people in history, Rattle them off to a popular tune! W. S. Gilbert
You bring in a container, you pay P200, 000 but only get a receipt for P60,000. Meaning that P140,000 goes to the bureaucrats and tong collectors. Francis Escudero
And grant that a man read all the books of music that ever were wrote, I shall not allow that music is or can be understood out of them, no more than the taste of meats out of cookish receipt books. Roger North