Crossword clues for voucher
voucher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Voucher \Vouch"er\, n.
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One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.
Will his vouchers vouch him no more?
--Shak.The great writers of that age stand up together as vouchers for one another's reputation.
--Spectator. A book, paper, or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind; also, any acquittance or receipt showing the payment of a debt; as, the merchant's books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts; notes, bonds, receipts, and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.
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(Law)
The act of calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.
The tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title. In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher or double vouchers.
--Blackstone.
A document attesting to a credit against certain defined expenditures; a recipt for prepayment; -- often used in pre-arranged travel plans, to provide evidence of pre-payment of the cost of lodging, transportation, or meals.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, originally "summoning of a person into court to warrant the title to a property, a calling to vouch;" see vouch. Meaning "receipt from a business transaction" is first attested 1690s; sense of "document which can be exchanged for goods or services" is attested from 1947.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services. 2 A receipt. 3 One who or that which vouches. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To establish the authenticity of; to vouch for. 2 (context transitive English) To provide a vouch for (an expenditure). 3 (context transitive English) To provide (a beneficiary) with a voucher.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A voucher is a bond of the redeemable transaction type which is worth a certain monetary value and which may be spent only for specific reasons or on specific goods. Examples include housing, travel, and food vouchers. The term voucher is also a synonym for receipt and is often used to refer to receipts used as evidence of, for example, the declaration that a service has been performed or that an expenditure has been made.
The term is also commonly used for school vouchers, which are somewhat different.
Usage examples of "voucher".
Once Woodside realized that the voucher was gone, he would know who had taken it.
He got all flustered and started to make a scene until I pulled the voucher out of my pocket.
Bush proposed a school voucher program, which would give parents federal tax dollars to use to pay tuition to private, religious schools.
I was sure she would cancel my voucher on the spot, but she merely glared at me, then turned her ire on two girls who giggled.
They never actually revoked my voucher, though they would have done so had I attempted to use it.
It took everything that was left of the voucher from Shadows to pay for it all, but she shrugged away the thought that she was doing it to impress Ransome.
All the very best people, and there is no hope of getting you a voucher when you live with me.
As they talked, it was Lady Sefton and not Countess Cowper who approached them with the cherished voucher in her hand.
Daphne answered, and with a wave of her little gloved hand that still held the voucher, she was off.
Felix into gaining her a voucher, she meant as well to show him how little value she actually placed on it.
Just to be sure, I got out the Portalab and ran the voucher cards through a launderer.
I managed to salvage the rest of the cannolis and get them back to the OCTF office, where my insistence that I voucher the baked goods created a lot of amusement.
The voucher, one of hundreds submitted by OCTF investigators for a staggering range of expenses, from meals to airline tickets and fishing gear, had my name at the bottom of it.
In Chapter 10, for instance, I advocate a voucher system, in which tax monies are used to subsidize schooling, but in Part III I argue for a society with no taxes, no government, and therefore no vouchers.
This could easily be accomplished by a voucher system, under which each student would receive from the state a tuition voucher, redeemable by any qualified school, public, private, or parochial.