acquittance

1. 1.

   a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation

   Synonymsrelease

   Broaderlegal document

   law

Other forms of acquittance

plural

acquittances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acquittance

What does acquittance mean?

acquittance means "a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation".

How many syllables are in acquittance?

acquittance has 3 syllables: acq-uit-tance. The stress falls on "acq".

What is another word for acquittance?

Close synonyms include release. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acquittance a common word?

acquittance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.