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• n  the act of receiving
• n  an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made
• v  report the receipt of
• v  mark or stamp as paid

• You pick up a few items at the supermarket or pharmacy, and what comes out of the register? A receipt that curls and streams out to a yard or so in length.
• The pass lists the African's name, birthplace, and tribal affiliation, contains his picture and serial number, has space for a receipt to prove that he has paid his taxes and to .
• The receipt, the agents said, had been in one of Cho's pockets, perhaps the pocket of his backpack, and had been discovered when his corpse was searched.

• reception
• acknowledge

News & Articles

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• Receipt profanity angers dad with son at bar
  Everything was going fine, until the bill came. But it wasn't the amount on the check that angered Joseph Gibson, who had stopped at a St. Louis sports bar to chow down. It was a line on the special order section for his young son that set him off. Under "1 -- Wing Sauce" the receipt read: "F---in Needy Kids." The name of the bar? Friendly's. Denny Domachowski, the general manager of Friendly's ...
  June 18, 2013 - KSAT San Antonio
• Cash register robbery suspect caught after receipt trail
  The man who police said stole the entire cash register from the Smoke, Beer and More store has been charged with robbery – and police said he left a trailer of paper receipt tape behind him. Neighbors described the getaway car and even gave police a license plate number. Officers eventually stopped the car and said suspect Kashif Oyeniyi fled during the stop. But he dropped his identification in ...
  June 18, 2013 - KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma
• Kabel Deutschland Confirms Receipt Of Preliminary Proposal From Liberty Global
  Kabel Deutschland Confirms Receipt Of Preliminary Proposal From Liberty Global
  June 17, 2013 - Nasdaq

Quotes

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• Charlie Crist in Washington Post
  You go to buy gasoline or you go to your ATM machine and you get a receipt that kind of tells you what happened,Crist said. "It seems like a pretty good idea to me, to be able to double check it later if there's a close race."
• Barack Obama in FOXNews (blog)
  Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars. One of these wars is winding down,Obama told an audience of approximately 900 people...
• Evan Solomon in Seattle Times
  Unfortunately, I do not know the answer to your question,says Solomon. "I am not a lawyer, so I wouldn't feel comfortable speculating on the legality of any user behavior." "Both sending and receipt of copyrighted material without...