Receipt vs. Delivery — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Receipt and Delivery
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Definitions
Receipt
A receipt (also known as a packing list, packing slip, packaging slip, (delivery) docket, shipping list, delivery list, bill of parcel, manifest or customer receipt) is a document acknowledging that a person has received money or property in payment following a sale or other transfer of goods or provision of a service. All receipts must have the date of purchase on them.
Delivery
The act of conveying or delivering.
Receipt
The action of receiving something or the fact of its being received
Families in receipt of supplementary benefit
I would be grateful if you would acknowledge receipt of this letter
Delivery
Something delivered, as a shipment or package.
Receipt
A recipe
She spent hours in the kitchen, trying all sorts of receipts
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Delivery
The act of transferring to another.
Receipt
Mark (a bill) as paid
The receipted hotel bill
Delivery
(Law) A formal act of transferring ownership of property to another
Delivery of a deed.
Receipt
The act of receiving
We are in receipt of your letter.
Delivery
The act of giving up; surrender.
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Receipt
The fact of being or having been received
They denied receipt of the shipment.
Delivery
The act or manner of throwing or discharging.
Receipt
Often receipts A quantity or amount received
Cash receipts.
Delivery
The act of giving birth; parturition.
Receipt
A written acknowledgment that a specified article, sum of money, or shipment of merchandise has been received.
Delivery
Utterance or enunciation
The historic speech required but two minutes in delivery.
Receipt
A recipe.
Delivery
The act or manner of speaking or singing
A folk singer's casual delivery.
Receipt
To mark (a bill) as having been paid.
Delivery
The act of releasing or rescuing.
Receipt
To give or write a receipt for (money paid or goods or services delivered).
Delivery
The act of conveying something.
The delivery was completed by four.
Delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
Receipt
To give a receipt.
Delivery
The item which has been conveyed.
Your delivery is on the table.
Receipt
The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
A balance payable on receipt of the goods.
Delivery
The act of giving birth
The delivery was painful.
Receipt
(obsolete) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
Delivery
(baseball) A pitching motion.
His delivery has a catch in it.
Receipt
(in the plural) A quantity or amount received; takings.
This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production!
Delivery
(baseball) A thrown pitch.
Here is the delivery; ... strike three!
Receipt
A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
Delivery
The manner of speaking.
The actor's delivery was flawless.
Receipt
(A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.
Delivery
(medicine) The administration of a drug.
Drug delivery system
Receipt
(A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing.
Delivery
(cricket) A ball bowled.
Receipt
(archaic in New England and rural US since end of 20th century, elsewhere since middle of 20th century) A recipe, instructions, prescription.
Delivery
(curling) The process of throwing a stone.
Receipt
(obsolete) A receptacle.
Delivery
(genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
Receipt
(obsolete) A revenue office.
Delivery
(football) A cross or pass
Receipt
(obsolete) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
Delivery
The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
Receipt
(obsolete) Capability of receiving; capacity.
Delivery
The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.
Receipt
(obsolete) A recess; a retired place.
Delivery
The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.
Receipt
To give or write a receipt (for something).
To receipt delivered goods
Delivery
The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
Receipt
To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.
To receipt a bill
Delivery
The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
Neater limbs and freer delivery.
Receipt
The act of receiving; reception.
Delivery
The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
Receipt
Reception, as an act of hospitality.
Thy kind receipt of me.
Delivery
The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail);
His reluctant delivery of bad news
Receipt
Capability of receiving; capacity.
It has become a place of great receipt.
Delivery
The event of giving birth;
She had a difficult delivery
Receipt
Place of receiving.
He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom.
Delivery
Your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally;
His manner of speaking was quite abrupt
Her speech was barren of southernisms
I detected a slight accent in his speech
Receipt
Hence, a recess; a retired place.
Delivery
The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
Receipt
A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.
She had a receipt to make white hair black.
Delivery
(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
Receipt
A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.
Delivery
Recovery or preservation from loss or danger;
Work is the deliverance of mankind
A surgeon's job is the saving of lives
Receipt
That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; - usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.
Delivery
The act of delivering a child
Receipt
To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.
Receipt
To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.
Receipt
To give a receipt, as for money paid.
Receipt
The act of receiving
Receipt
An acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made
Receipt
Report the receipt of;
The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper
Receipt
Mark or stamp as paid
