Scrip vs Coupon - What's the difference?
scrip | coupon |
A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
* 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
* 1964 , Nothing Like the Sun
Small change.
* 1899, ,
A scrap of paper.
A document certifying possession of land, or in lieu of money.
A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the .
Any substitute for legal tender that is produced by a natural person or private legal person and is often a form of credit.
(obsolete) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
(finance) Any interest payment made or due on a bond, debenture or similar (no longer by a physical coupon).
A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.
(Scotland) The face.
As nouns the difference between scrip and coupon
is that scrip is a small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc or scrip can be a scrap of paper or scrip can be a share certificate or scrip can be (informal|british) a medical prescription while coupon is .scrip
English
(wikipedia scrip)Etymology 1
An aphetism of (etyl) , a variant of escharpe, from (etyl) skreppa.Noun
(en noun)- Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
- A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —
The Brick Moon and Other Stories], (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999, Etext #1633
- In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip " was in the sixties the name for small change.