scrip

• IPA^(key): /skɹɪp/

From Middle English scrippe, an aphetism of Old French escrepe (“purse, alms-bag”), a variant of escharpe, from Old Norse skreppa. Cognate with Danish skreppe (“scrip”).

scrip (countable and uncountable, plural scrips)

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.

Probably from a conflation of script and scrap.

scrip (countable and uncountable, plural scrips)

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.
4. Any substitute for legal tender that is produced by a natural person or private legal person and is often a form of credit.

Abbreviation of subscription receipt.

scrip (plural scrips)

1. A share certificate.

Abbreviation of prescription.

scrip (plural scrips)

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

• Crips, Crisp, crips, crisp

Borrowed from English scrip, clipping of subscription receipt.

• IPA^(key): /skrɪp/
• Hyphenation: scrip
• Rhymes: -ɪp

scrip m (plural scrips)

1. scrip (share certificate)