English
scrip
Pronunciation Noun

scrip

  1. A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
    • 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. —
  2. (archaic) Small change.
    • 1899, Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories ↗, (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999], Etext #1633
      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.
Noun

scrip

  1. A scrap of paper.
  2. A document certifying possession of land, or in lieu of money.
  3. A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system; chit#Etymology_2|chit.
  4. Any substitute for legal tender that is produced by a natural person or private legal person and is often a form of credit.
Noun

scrip (plural scrips)

  1. A share certificate.
Noun

scrip (plural scrips)

  1. (informal, British, US) A medical prescription.


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