Definition of "receipt" []

• The act of receiving: We are in receipt of your letter. (noun)
• The fact of being or having been received: They denied receipt of the shipment. (noun)
• A quantity or amount received. Often used in the plural: cash receipts. (noun)
• A written acknowledgment that a specified article, sum of money, or shipment of merchandise has been received. (noun)
• A recipe. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The other receipt is as follows: – Take of grated bread, mashed potatoes, grated carrot, chopped suet, currants, and sugar, each a quarter of a pound, two eggs beaten up with a little salt, and a little grated nutmeg and lemon-peel, with a very little powdered cinnamon to flavour it."
• "Glennda the Beckerhead can say these things because in his back pocket he has the receipt from the loaves and fishes miracle showing Jesus charged a fair market price for the produce and made a tidy little profit, and because those missions the mormons run to age their football players are not about helping the less fortunate but about proselytizing and adding converts."
• "On any one day, over 1,000,000 people are in receipt of poor-law relief in the United Kingdom."