'Scrip' definitions:
Definition of 'scrip'
(from WordNet)
noun
A certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee; scrip is not currency but may be convertible into currency
Definition of 'Scrip'
From: GCIDE
- Scrip \Scrip\, n. [From script.]
- 1. A small writing, certificate, or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing. [1913 Webster]
- Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Bills of exchange can not pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Paper fractional currency. [Colloq.U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scrip'
From: GCIDE
- Scrip \Scrip\, n. [OE. scrippe, probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. & OSw. skreppa, and also LL. scrippum, OF. esquerpe, escrepe, F. ['e]charpe scarf. Cf. Scrap, Scarf a piece of dress.] A small bag; a wallet; a satchel. [Archaic] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- And in requital ope his leathern scrip. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'scrip'
From: Easton
- Scrip a small bag or wallet usually fastened to the girdle (1 Sam. 17:40); "a shepherd's bag."
- In the New Testament it is the rendering of Gr. pera, which was a bag carried by travellers and shepherds, generally made of skin (Matt. 10:10; Mark 6:8; Luke 9:3; 10:4). The name "scrip" is meant to denote that the bag was intended to hold scraps, fragments, as if scraped off from larger articles, trifles.
Synonyms of 'scrip'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- and pence,
- article,
- assignat,
- autograph,
- baggage check,
- bank note,
- bill,
- blank,
- brainchild,
- cash,
- check,
- chirograph,
- circulating medium,
- coinage,
- coined liberty,
- cold cash,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- copy,
- counter,
- coupon,
- currency,
- docket,
- document,
- dollar bill,
- dollars,
- dossier,
- draft,
- edited version,
- emergency money,
- engrossment,
- essay,
- fair copy,
- Federal Reserve note,
- fiat money,
- fiction,
- file,
- filthy lucre,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- first draft,
- flimsy,
- form,
- fractional currency,
- fractional note,
- gold,
- government note,
- hard cash,
- hard currency,
- hat check,
- holograph,
- instrument,
- legal document,
- legal instrument,
- legal paper,
- legal tender,
- legal-tender note,
- letter,
- literae scriptae,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- literature,
- lucre,
- lucubration,
- mammon,
- managed currency,
- manuscript,
- matter,
- medium of exchange,
- mintage,
- money,
- national bank note,
- necessity money,
- negotiable note,
- nonfiction,
- note,
- official document,
- opus,
- original,
- paper,
- paper money,
- papers,
- parchment,
- pelf,
- penscript,
- personal file,
- piece,
- piece of writing,
- play,
- poem,
- postage currency,
- postal currency,
- pounds,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- production,
- reading matter,
- recension,
- roll,
- screed,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- shillings,
- shinplaster,
- silver,
- slug,
- soft currency,
- specie,
- sterling,
- tag,
- the almighty dollar,
- the wherewith,
- the wherewithal,
- the written word,
- ticket,
- token,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- treasury note,
- typescript,
- version,
- work,
- writ,
- writing