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Refund vs Receipt - What's the difference?

refund | receipt |

In obsolete terms the difference between refund and receipt

is that refund is to supply again with funds while receipt is a recess; a retired place.

As verbs the difference between refund and receipt

is that refund is to return (money) to (someone); to reimburse while receipt is to give or write a receipt (for something.

As nouns the difference between refund and receipt

is that refund is an amount of money returned while receipt is the act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.

refund

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
    • A governor, that had pillaged the people, was sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. — L'Estrange.
    If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we'll refund you the difference.
  • (obsolete) To supply again with funds.
    • to refund a railroad loan
  • (obsolete, rare) To pour back.
    • Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object. — Ray.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount of money returned.
    • If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a refund.

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms

    receipt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:at the receipt of your letter
  • (label) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
  • *, Bk.VI, Ch.xvi:
  • *:And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite .
  • (label) A quantity or amount received; takings.
  • :
  • A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
  • A recipe, instructions, prescription.
  • *Sir (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
  • *:She had a receipt to make white hair black.
  • (label) A receptacle.
  • (label) A revenue office.
  • (label) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
  • *(George Chapman) (1559-1634)
  • *:thy kind receipt of me
  • (label) Capability of receiving; capacity.
  • *(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
  • *:It has become a place of great receipt .
  • (label) A recess; a retired place.
  • *(George Chapman) (1559-1634)
  • *:in a retired receipt together lay

    • Related terms

    * receivable * receive * reception * receptive

    See also

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give or write a receipt (for something)
    • to receipt delivered goods
  • To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid
    • to receipt a bill

    See also

    * rcpt * sales slip

    Anagrams

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