Wiktionary
n. A stamp or similar paper document (e.g. coupon) issued to be exchanged in shops or storage facilities for food, or (by extension) for other essential provisions, notably in a rationing system or as a non-financial form of welfare benefit
WordNet
n. government-issued stamps used in exchange for food
Wikipedia
Food stamp may refer to:
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Food Stamp Program, U.S. federal program
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), current name for the former U.S. Food Stamp Program
- Ration stamp, used to ration goods, particularly in wartime
Usage examples of "food stamp".
Show up at your local food stamp office, which can be found by calling the Welfare Department in our city.
Grinning, Amarante produced the food stamp book and, while Nick looked on incredulously, painstakingly tore out four one-dollar stamps which he laid carefully on the counter.
I was oblivious because I was fighting with the food stamp office on onefront and the prosecutor's office on another.
I was oblivious because I was fighting with the food stamp office on one front and the prosecutor's office on another.
He dropped the Medicaid caps, restored the food stamp entitlement.
Nixon imposed wage and price controls, established relations with Communist China, engaged in detente with the Soviet Union, created the Environmental Protection Agency, expanded the federal food stamp program, hired Henry Kissinger, and put Harry Blackmun on the Supreme Court.