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Scrip vs Coupon - What's the difference?

scrip | coupon |

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)
  • A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
  • Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
  • * 1964 , Nothing Like the Sun
  • 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. —
  • Small change.
  • * 1899, , 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.

    Etymology 2

    Probably from a conflation of (m) and (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Etymology 3

    Abbreviation of .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A share certificate.
  • Etymology 4

    Abbreviation of (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, British) A medical prescription.
  • Anagrams

    *

    coupon

    English

    (wikipedia coupon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (section of a ticket giving the holder some entitlement ): voucher

    Derived terms

    * couponer * couponing * zero coupon bond

    Anagrams

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