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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
counterfoil
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both the counterfoil and the voting slip have identical numbers printed on them similar to a cloakroom or raffle tickets.
▪ I enclose the one-way ticket counterfoil as proof of purchase, and look forward to hearing from you.
▪ If you paid by postal order, take the counterfoils to the post office for a refund.
▪ Is the practice of marking each voting counterfoil with the electors electoral role number to continue in the forthcoming election?
▪ It was not easy to store the counterfoils of sale vouchers out of the range of white ants.
▪ Please collect counterfoils and money from your class members and send to Joan Daniels as soon as possible.
▪ Please complete the back of the ticket counterfoil and send to the Amnesty Fundraising Department, with your request for extra tickets.
▪ The numbered counterfoil of each certificate was returned to the kachcheri by the headman.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Counterfoil

Counterfoil \Coun"ter*foil`\ (-foil), n. [Counter- + foil a leaf.]

  1. That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock.

  2. The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued.

Wiktionary
counterfoil

n. the part of a cheque that is retained in the chequebook as a record; a stub

WordNet
counterfoil

n. the part of a check that is retained as a record [syn: stub, check stub]

Usage examples of "counterfoil".

For Comus this first-night performance, with its brilliant gathering of spectators, its groups and coteries of lively talkers, even its counterfoil of dull chatterers, its pervading atmosphere of stage and social movement, and its intruding undercurrent of political flutter, all this composed a tragedy in which he was the chief character.

Gyp, who was sitting at her bureau, seemed to be adding up the counterfoils in her cheque-book.

It contained various toiletries, a pair of espadrilles, some soiled shirts, a dead passport (the young blond face erect with classic vanity), and a travel pouch full of loose matter: credit-card counterfoils, bills, used tickets, a slip of note-paper letterheaded the Cymbeline, Stratford-on-Avon, with a telephone number and appointment time on one side and a message from Selina on the other.