Definition of: receipt

(ri·sēt′) noun
1. The act or state of receiving anything: to be in receipt of good news.
2. That which is received: usually in the plural: cash receipts.
3. A written acknowledgment of the payment of money, of the delivery of goods, etc.
4. A recipe.
—v.t.
1. To give a receipt for the payment of.
2. To write acknowledgment of payment on, as a bill.
—v.i.
3. To give a receipt, as for money paid. [<OF recete <L recepta, fem. of receptus, pp. of recipere RECEIVE; refashioned after Latin]