scrip
1- a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
- a scrap of paper.
- Finance.
- a certificate representing a fraction of a share of stock.
- a certificate to be exchanged for goods, as at a company store.
- a certificate indicating the right of the holder to receive payment later in the form of cash, goods, or land.
- paper currency in denominations of less than one dollar, formerly issued in the United States.
Origin of scrip
1scrip
2- a bag or wallet carried by wayfarers.
Origin of scrip
2scrip
3- a prescription, as for a drug.
Origin of scrip
3Examples from the Web for scrip
Contemporary Examples of scrip
Buying prescription drugs without a scrip is a serious legal offense, as Rush Limbaugh could tell you.
Historical Examples of scrip
Behold me with staff and scrip, footing it merrily in the Land of Pardons.
Ballads of a BohemianRobert W. Service
I pay over the money for your scrip, and you pocket a premium.
Again, you have the word scrip—as a scrip of paper, government scrip.
English Past and PresentRichard Chevenix Trench
On my windmill locations I put "Scrip" in blocks of forty acres.
Ranching, Sport and TravelThomas Carson
He drew from his pocket a roll of scrip, and handed one to Frank.
The Telegraph BoyHoratio Alger, Jr.
scrip
1- a written certificate, list, etc
- a small scrap, esp of paper with writing on it
- finance
- a certificate representing a claim to part of a share of stock
- the shares allocated in a bonus issue
Word Origin for scrip
scrip
2- archaic a small bag or wallet, as carried by pilgrims
Word Origin for scrip
scrip
3script
- informal a medical prescription
Word Origin for scrip
Word Origin and History for scrip
"certificate of a right to receive something" (especially a stock share), 1762, probably shortened from (sub)scrip(tion) receipt. Originally "receipt for a portion of a loan subscribed," meaning "certificate issued as currency" first recorded 1790.