food stamp
Noun
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Noun
food stamp (plural food stamps)
- A stamp or similar paper document (e.g. coupon) issued to be exchanged in shops or storage facilities for food, or (by extension) for other essential provisions, notably in a rationing system or as a non-financial form of welfare benefit.
- The authorities claim they turned from unemployment checks to food stamps to avoid alcoholists wasting their families' allowances in pubs
- ration card
- ration stamp
- French: ticket de rationnement
- German: Essensmarke
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