as in certificate
a record of goods sold or services performed together with the amount paid
If you'd like to return those pants, you'll need to provide a receipt.
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Recent Examples of receipt
Footwear firms were able to pull forward their inventory receipts last year to hedge against rising costs and possible supply chain disruptions.
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Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
Store them physically along with any instructions and receipts of you buying crypto with your estate paperwork.
—Kim Komando The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Even as receipts come in above projections, the state is still facing ongoing deficits that are expected to widen over the next few years.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026
The tax records indicate that the Honors brought in gross receipts of more than $8 million in fiscal year 2024.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
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Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 7 Jan. 2026
Store them physically along with any instructions and receipts of you buying crypto with your estate paperwork.
—Kim Komando The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
Even as receipts come in above projections, the state is still facing ongoing deficits that are expected to widen over the next few years.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026
The tax records indicate that the Honors brought in gross receipts of more than $8 million in fiscal year 2024.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for receipt
Noun
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For example, one of the bills would eliminate the certificate-of-need regulatory process for nursing homes and hospice providers.—
Jim Saunders,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
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Board members, family and recipients posed for photos after receiving certificates.—
Connye Griffin,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The church released a statement about the incident on Wednesday night.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Jan. 2026
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The social media post was accompanied by emojis of a knife, an ax and red drops after the statement.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The group, which works with restaurants and caterers to distribute meals to schools, was accused of sending fake meal-count sheets and invoices.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Chief among the damaging moves in the Saks-Neiman Marcus saga has been the company’s decision in 2023 not to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in vendor invoices on normal terms, and instead stretch them out over 12-month terms to manage an enormous backlog of overdue bills.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at the time estimated that the Biden administration’s action would save families more than $10 billion a year by cutting fees from an average of $32.—
Luciana Lopez,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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Businesses never keep that money, yet they are still charged fees on it.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Jan. 2026
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This ends in a note of possible hope.—
Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Nov. 2025
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The 29th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) is officially off to the races after opening on Friday on a musical note, courtesy of Catalan artist Maria Arnal.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Receipt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/receipt. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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