Scrip
WordNet
noun
(1) A certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee; scrip is not currency but may be convertible into currency
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
An aphetism of Old French escreppe ‘purse, alms-bag’, a varient of escherpe or of Old Norse skreppa.
Quotations
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
- Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
- 1964 Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun
- A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —