gift certificate
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gift certificate
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Besides being given a $1,000 scholarship, Townsell received a gift certificate for free Raising Cane’s chicken for a year.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025
Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, said Justice Sonia Sotomayor received artwork and a gift certificate for a spa, among other presents during her first term.
From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2023
What did we do with the food delivery gift certificate that friends gave us when we got covid-19?
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2022
But you are not, in fact, supposed to be able to buy a gift certificate with your F.S.A. money to use for services or goods during the next year of your benefits plan.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2022
His parents gave him a fifty-dollar gift certificate to Drastic Plastic, the punk rock record store downtown.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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