scrip

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.

   “Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.”

2. isim Small change.

   “In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip" was in the sixties the name for small change.”

3. isim A scrap of paper.
4. isim A document signifying a power to obtain a specified acreage of public land.

   “Each unit of scrip you buy entitles you to one acre of the choicest land in North America.”

5. isim A voucher or token coin used in place of legal tender. Issued by a local government or a private organization.

   “His actions provide a blueprint for crisis control that merits attention today. All these fiscal achievements removed most of the need for local scrip, accounting for the very few issues found in this section of the catalog.”

6. isim Such a thing issued by a company as payment of wages.

   “A grievance that was both economic and psychological was the practice, common in some mills, especially prior to 1890, of paying in scrip that had to be redeemed for goods at a company store.”

7. isim A share certificate.
8. isim A medical prescription.