voucher

voucher (ˈvaʊtʃə)

—n
1.	a document serving as evidence for some claimed transaction, as the receipt or expenditure of money
2.	(Brit) a ticket or card serving as a substitute for cash: a gift voucher
3.	a person or thing that vouches for the truth of some statement, etc
4.	any of certain documents that various groups of British nationals born outside Britain must obtain in order to settle in Britain
5.	obsolete English law
	a. the summoning into court of a person to warrant a title to property
	b. the person so summoned

[C16: from Anglo-French, noun use of Old French voucher to summon; see vouch]

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Word Origin & History

voucher

originally "summoning of a person into court to warrant the title to a property;" see vouch. Meaning "receipt from a business transaction" is first attested 1696; sense of "document which can be exchanged for goods or services" is attested from 1947.

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Cultural Dictionary

voucher definition

A credit of a certain monetary value that can be used only for a specified purpose, such as to pay for housing or for food. Food stamps are a kind of voucher.

Note: Some economists believe that goods and services supplied by the government would be provided more efficiently if vouchers that could be spent only on such goods and services were given to citizens, and private business competed to provide those goods and services.

Example sentences

Voucher number must be given when scheduling and presented at time of

appointment.

Once a resident has a voucher terminated, it is difficult to have it reinstated.

Even after you've got the e-voucher ready, you'll still have to negotiate with

your car salesman for your new ride.

On the back is an example of your real signature torn from the hotel voucher.

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"Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, and what circumstances would be drastic enough for presenting the voucher. Obviously there is no repayment that would be sufficient . . . but the effort to call in the debt of life is too outrageous to be treated as anything other than a joke."

-Frank Pittman