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Scrip

Scrip \Scrip\, n. [From script.]

  1. A small writing, certificate, or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing.

    Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.
    --Shak.

    Bills of exchange can not pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin.
    --Locke.

  2. A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.

  3. Paper fractional currency. [Colloq.U.S.]

Scrip

Scrip \Scrip\, n. [OE. scrippe, probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. & OSw. skreppa, and also LL. scrippum, OF. esquerpe, escrepe, F. ['e]charpe scarf. Cf. Scrap, Scarf a piece of dress.] A small bag; a wallet; a satchel. [Archaic]
--Chaucer.

And in requital ope his leathern scrip.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.

Wiktionary
scrip

Etymology 1 n. 1 A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc. 2 Small change. Etymology 2

n. 1 A scrap of paper. 2 A document certifying possession of land, or in lieu of money. 3 A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/truck%20system; chit#Etymology_2. 4 Any substitute for legal tender that is produced by a natural person or private legal person and is often a form of credit. Etymology 3

n. A share certificate. Etymology 4

n. (context informal British English) A medical prescription.

WordNet
scrip

n. a certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee; scrip is not currency but may be convertible into currency

Wikipedia
Scrip

Scrip (sometimes in India called chit) is a term for any substitute for legal tender and is often a form of credit. Scrips have been created for payment of employees under the truck system, and for use in local commerce at times when regular currency was unavailable, for example in remote coal towns, military bases, ships on long voyages, or occupied countries in wartime. Besides company scrip, other forms of scrip include land scrip, vouchers, token coins such as subway tokens, IOUs, arcade tokens and tickets, and points on some credit cards.

Scrips have gained historical importance and become a subject of study in numismatics and exonumia due to their wide variety and recurring use. Scrip behaves similarly to a currency, and as such can be used to study monetary economics.

Usage examples of "scrip".

Dio Francesco fondatore del minorico ordine fu scripta da San Bonaventura e da quatro altri frati.

They would strip you of bag and baggage, scrip and scrippage, and then what they would do to your stripped body is beyond imagining.

There was a slight jostling and for the next few steps, a smiling Ghost let deutschmarks, corporate scrip, coins, and credsticks dribble from his fingers.

Mistress Alice Shipside, who lived at the Grange, was a learned lady, and though she loved well to play at tennis, and was famous at closh bowls, loved still better the lore of scrip and the grey goose quill.

Gideon, the scrip of David, from which the smoothest stones are taken for the slaying of Goliath.

Your cut is two percent, which should come to about two thousand dollars in Starbright scrip.

By this time Nan began to feel very weary, and she threw herself down on the bed with the baby, but she kept in her hand some little scrips of the pretty lawns and ginghams that she had found on the floor.

Why--one of the scrips was exactly like a waist that one of those girls had worn.

He had more than kept his word, giving each of the peasants clothing, a knife, a scrip of food for the journey, a waterbag and either a silver coin or a handful of bronze ones, in addition to his freedom.

He collared the nearest trash bag tearing it open, pulling out pages, scraps, fragments of landscapes, coastlines, a palm size scrip of cheap newsprint stapled together in black and blue here, here's one, Genesis to Revelation the whole thing boiled down to ten pitiful little pages of illiteracy and hideous cartoons, here's the creation.

Now that the time was near, she was stroking the bulging scrip, apparently without realizing what she was doing.

The federal government-or what was left of the federal government, trying desperately, and not always successfully, to keep a battered and Balkanizing country from flying completely apart, struggling to put the Humpty Dumpty that was America back together again-the federal government paid Abner (and others like him) a yearly allowance in federal scrip or promise-of-merchandise notes for giving room and board to refugees from the drowned lands .

She could also see that she was going to need some barterable commodity other than company scrip to get by.

I carry, behind the ruins of my face, inside my brain, the smell of excrement and pounded, flayed flesh stirred deep into the mud of the streets, the composted stench of decaying scrip and bank drafts and certificates of mortgage in the civil registry, and in the merchants’ bank, and of course the bitter, corrosive wash against my bandages of shingle, lath, and floorboard as they burned.

After contrasting, with indiscreet wit, the nature of God, and the actions of Jehovah, he concludes: Scilicet ut haec de filio Dei non credenda fuisse, si non scripta essent.