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noun

a certificate entitling the bearer to select merchandise of a specified cash value from a store, usually presented as a gift.

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Origin of gift certificate

First recorded in 1940–45

Words nearby gift certificate

Gieseking, Giessen, GIF, gift, giftable, gift certificate, gifted, gift of gab, gift of tongues, gift tax, gift voucher

How to use gift certificate in a sentence

You’ll be emailed a gift certificate to send to your loved one, helping them assuage their guilt over flying across the country, eating a lot of meat or other carbon-intensive activities they plan to engage in over the holidays.
Holiday Gifts That Actually Fight Climate Change|Ciara Nugent|December 7, 2021|Time
That said, if this list still doesn’t cut it, get them a good old-fashioned gift certificate — because there’s nothing foodies love more than control.
From the Cut: 33 Valentine’s Day Gifts for the Foodie in Your Life|The Cut Staff|February 8, 2021|Eater
For the person on your list who prizes experiences over material items, a gift certificate from their preferred guiding outfitter, lodge, or travel service is a guaranteed hit.
36 Awesome Gifts for Adventure Travelers|Mary Turner and Erin Riley|December 11, 2020|Outside Online
Most lodges sell merchandise, so check their websites and start ordering, or buy a gift certificate toward a trip from an outfitter you love.
36 Awesome Gifts for Adventure Travelers|Mary Turner and Erin Riley|December 11, 2020|Outside Online

If not, honestly a gift certificate or subscription to the “Game Pass” service that provides free games is fine.
Gift Guide: Which next-gen console is the one your kid wants?|Devin Coldewey|November 23, 2020|TechCrunch
The kids had a gift for him too, a tee shirt with ‘Baseball Spoken Here’ stenciled across the front.
Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light|Mike Barnicle|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
While the chicken today might be the least exotic bird one can think of, it was once a gift that wowed kings.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity|William O’Connor|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A Christmas Carol revived and reinvented it around the gift of giving.
How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas|Clive Irving|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then the gift card is shopped online in a gray market to collect cold currency.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks|M.L. Nestel|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Moraca pointed to another form of return fraud, involving gift cards.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks|M.L. Nestel|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The living (value £250) is in the gift of trustees, and is now held by the Rev. M. Parker, Vicar.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
At the end of the first year, however, she resigned this privilege because she did not wish to accept the conditions of the gift.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
From the point of view of cover, the gold certificate is completely inelastic.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
This gift of rice was especially pleasing to the traveller, as no dish is held in higher honour in Korea.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
It is certain that I then had a bad cough nearly always; and this I am sure was what decided the form of his parting gift to me.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow