What is "receipts"

Usage examples of "receipts".

The total receipts amounted to two millions, and the administration made a profit of six hundred thousand francs, of which Paris alone had contributed a hundred thousand francs.

Paris had eighteen or twenty ternes, and although they were small they increased the reputation of the lottery, and it was easy to see that the receipts at the next drawing would be doubled.

He brought his receipts and I paid everything without objection, as I found him an entirely honest man, and I had him to dinner with Madame Dubois and myself.

If the receipts amount to more than fifty florins, we will share the overplus between us.

Governor-General and the Secretary of War an annual report of the fiscal concerns of the government, showing the receipts and disbursements of the various departments and bureaus of the government and of the various Provinces and municipalities, and make such other reports as may be required of him by the Governor-General or the Secretary of War.

Abby peered with interest at the open file drawers, stacks Of folders, piles of receipts and the slow-motion geometric shapes of the screen saver floating across the computer monitor.

My receipts amounted to sixty thousand, but being obliged to deliver over my chest on the evening before the drawing, I had to pay out of my own funds, and was not repaid for a week.

Phone bill, the Delta Airlines ticket envelope, receipts from the Honky-Tonk, savings passbooks, phony documents.

When the fax finally arrived, Teresa was ready with invoices and receipts Tom Sorry had written.

Cicero says that death frees us from all pains and sorrows, but this great philosopher books all the expense without taking the receipts into account.

Her receipts amounted to more than twenty-four thousand pounds per annum, but her expenses were enormous and she had debts.

On the other hand, the farmer ought to win unless it can be shewn that the receipts signed by Torriano are forgeries.

But would anyone be blatant enough to alter or corrupt receipts so that someone looking at them could see a discrepancy?

A small poll tax, plus customs receipts, plus an insignificant sum from the Insular Treasury, not only paid expenses but served to build roads and other public improvements as well.

The six cash-register receipts were dated January 17, January1, February 7, February 14, March 7, and March 14.