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RECEIPT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of receiving

Synonyms:

receipt; reception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("receipt" is a kind of...):

acquiring; getting (the act of acquiring something)

Derivation:

receipt (report the receipt of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("receipt" is a kind of...):

acknowledgement; acknowledgment (a statement acknowledging something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "receipt"):

stub; ticket stub (a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt)

bill of lading; waybill (a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery)

pawn ticket (a pawnbroker's receipt for articles taken as security)

Derivation:

receipt (mark or stamp as paid)

receipt (report the receipt of)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark or stamp as paid

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "receipt" is one way to...):

check; check off; mark; mark off; tick; tick off (put a check mark on or near or next to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

receipt (an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Report the receipt of

Example:

The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper

Synonyms:

acknowledge; receipt

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "receipt" is one way to...):

communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across (transmit information)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

receipt (the act of receiving)

receipt (an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made)

Credits

 Context examples: 

In addition, CSR provides central receipt of all PHS applications for research and review.

(NIH Center for Scientific Review, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the discreet list of values describing the condition of the specimen at time of receipt at the lab.

(Biologic Specimen Condition Code, NCI Thesaurus)

Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and handed it to him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I went out of my senses immediately; became a mere driveller next day, on receipt of a little lace-edged sheet of note-paper, Favoured by papa.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Henry acknowledged receipt of the information with a grunt that slid into a snore as he drifted back into sleep.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He had a right, of course, to do as he pleased: and yet a momentary damp is cast on the spirits by the receipt of such news.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Early in February, within a fortnight from the receipt of Willoughby's letter, Elinor had the painful office of informing her sister that he was married.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Sir Thomas set off, Edmund would go with him, and the others had been left in a state of wretchedness, inferior only to what followed the receipt of the next letters from London.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Conferral or receipt of an academic degree or diploma marking the completion of a defined set of coursework.

(Graduation, NCI Thesaurus)

The first three or four days passed most quietly, with no circumstance to mark them excepting the receipt of a note or two from Lyme, which found their way to Anne, she could not tell how, and brought a rather improving account of Louisa.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)