receipt
n. countablen. a piece of paper or a digital message that proves you paid for something. It shows the date, the price, and what you bought.
n. a written or electronic acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received. Often serves as a formal record of a commercial transaction.
Keep your receipt in case you need to return the shirt.
The cashier handed me a receipt after I paid for the groceries with my credit card.
Auditors require every business expense to be backed by a valid receipt to ensure that the company's financial statements accurately reflect its actual spending.
From Middle English receyt, recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite (“receipt, recipe”) (1304), altered (by influence of receit (“he receives”), from Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I take”). The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root. Doublet of recept and recipe. False cognate of Persian رسید (resid) (whence Urdu رسید (rasīd)).
Commonly used with the verb 'to issue' in formal contexts or 'to get' in casual ones.
I asked for a recipe after buying the shoes.I asked for a receipt after buying the shoes.Learners often confuse 'receipt' (proof of purchase) with 'recipe' (instructions for cooking).