receipt

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

1. To mark (a bill) as having been paid.
2. To give or write a receipt for (money paid or goods or services delivered).

To give a receipt.

[Middle English receite, from Old North French, from Medieval Latin recepta, medical prescription, money received, from Latin, feminine past participle of recipere, to receive. See receive.]