Definitions for scrip

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Spelling: [skrip]

IPA: /skrɪp/

Scrip is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in scrip (ciprs).

Definitions for scrip

noun

1. a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
2. a scrap of paper.
3. Finance. a certificate representing a fraction of a share of stock. a certificate to be exchanged for goods, as at a company store. a certificate indicating the right of the holder to receive payment later in the form of cash, goods, or land.
4. paper currency in denominations of less than one dollar, formerly issued in the United States.
5. a bag or wallet carried by wayfarers.
6. a prescription, as for a drug.

Origin of scrip

1610-20; earliest sense “scrap of paper” perhaps gradational variant of scrap¹; subsequent sense development shows influence of scr

Examples for scrip

Behold me with staff and scrip, footing it merrily in the Land of Pardons.

Your scrip, a-swinging by your side, Gapes with a gaunt mouth hungry-wide.

I also had at my banker's some scrip, and I knew I could raise money on that.

Again, you have the word scrip—as a scrip of paper, government scrip.

Buying prescription drugs without a scrip is a serious legal offense, as Rush Limbaugh could tell you.

On my windmill locations I put "scrip" in blocks of forty acres.

He drew from his pocket a roll of scrip, and handed one to Frank.

The cobbler knew nothing of the mine, but he held the scrip.

I pay over the money for your scrip, and you pocket a premium.

You were best to call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip.