voucher
Sign in to savethumb|right|350 px|This British Army Forces Voucher, issued to soldiers in Germany following World War II, may be used only in canteens or other specified transactions. A voucher is a bond which is worth a certain monetary value and which may be redeemed only for specific reasons or on specific goods. Examples include housing, travel, and meal vouchers. Vouchers are a form of scrip. The term voucher is also a synonym for receipt and is often used to refer to receipts used as evidence of, for example, the declaration that a service has been performed or that an expenditure has been made.
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- Vouchers
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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thumb|right|350 px|This British Army Forces Voucher, issued to soldiers in Germany following World War II, may be used only in canteens or other specified transactions. A voucher is a bond which is worth a certain monetary value and which may be redeemed only for specific reasons or on specific goods. Examples include housing, travel, and meal vouchers. Vouchers are a form of scrip. The term voucher is also a synonym for receipt and is often used to refer to receipts used as evidence of, for example, the declaration that a service has been performed or that an expenditure has been made.
The term is also commonly used for labour vouchers and school vouchers, which are somewhat different.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “voucher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.