What's the difference between quittance and receipt?

Quittance


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.
  • (v. t.) Recompense; return; repayment.
  • (v. t.) To repay; to requite.

Example Sentences:

Receipt


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of receiving; reception.
  • (n.) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
  • (n.) Capability of receiving; capacity.
  • (n.) Place of receiving.
  • (n.) Hence, a recess; a retired place.
  • (n.) A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.
  • (n.) A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.
  • (n.) That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.
  • (v. t.) To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.
  • (v. t.) To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.
  • (v. i.) To give a receipt, as for money paid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (2) The public finance forecasts are linked to those growth predictions, since stronger growth means healthier tax receipts and lower spending on unemployment benefit and other welfare measures.
  • (3) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
  • (4) The ONS said it was possible that these one-off items and a rise in tax receipts in January could bring the overall debt figure within the OBR's £80.5bn forecast.
  • (5) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (6) However, rights being accrued are outstripping receipts.
  • (7) In addition, we found that maternal receipt of magnesium sulfate was associated with diminished risk of GMH-IVH even in those babies born to mothers who apparently did not have preeclampsia.
  • (8) The mean time from initiation of surgery to the surgeon's receipt of the frozen section diagnosis was 0.9 hours.
  • (9) The survey results and the fact that 25% of the stores made changes after receipt of a letter indicate that occupational therapists can be effective advocates for accessibility and thus provide a vital link to productive living for persons in wheelchairs.
  • (10) The first minister insisted that Scotland had a vibrant economy, saying overall tax receipts including North Sea oil were £400 per head higher from Scotland in 2013-14 than the UK average.
  • (11) "When you have 54% of students in receipt of EMA, clearly that is a very widely framed benefit.
  • (12) Yet figures show that of the students graduating last year, there were 10,670 who had been in receipt of free school meals.
  • (13) It is possible in the UK to carry out a phased approach to drug development that is designed to assist in the selection of a candidate drug for development from a series of compounds; minimize the amount of animal work (toxicological and metabolic) necessary to permit early evaluation in man; introduce a more rational basis for decision making by setting criteria that must be satisfied before entry can be made into the next phase of development; obtain safety, pharmacokinetic, and possibly dynamic data in man within about 16 months of receipt of the compound.
  • (14) Receipt of large amounts of anti-HBS may be associated with an increased incidence of HB events.
  • (15) Case and noncase infants were similar with respect to other complications and to receipt of medications and parenteral nutrition.
  • (16) The method was able to determine subpopulations of individual cells that secreted antibody in less than fifteen hours after receipt of a conventional cell suspension.
  • (17) The procedure is fast enough (21 min from receipt of blood to reporting value) to be used for emergency determinations.
  • (18) What I've been told is that the Electoral Commission in 2009 looked at this exhaustively – as far as the receipt of that money by the Liberal Democrats from one of his companies.
  • (19) These receipts, known as "running cash notes", were made out in the name of the depositor and promised to pay him on demand.
  • (20) The public purse was helped by a 3.7% increase in tax receipts against a backdrop of economic growth and falling unemployment.