receipt

1. 1.

   report the receipt of

   “The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper”

   Synonymsacknowledge

   Broadercommunicate
2. 2.

   mark or stamp as paid

   Broadercheck

Other forms of receipt

plural

receipts·

past tense

receipted·

present participle

receipting·

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 receipt

What does receipt mean?

receipt means "the act of receiving". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in receipt?

receipt has 2 syllables: re-ceipt. The stress falls on "ceipt". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈsit/.

What is another word for receipt?

Close synonyms include reception, acknowledge. 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 receipt a common word?

receipt is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with receipt?

5 words rhyme with receipt. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.