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Word Meanings - QUITTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance. Omittance is no quittance. Shak. 2. Recompense; return; repayment. Shak.

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  • LIQUIDATION
    The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
  • LIBERATION
    The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. Pownall.
  • RIDDANCE
    1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22. 2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. "Riddance from all adversity." Hooker.
  • PAYMENT
    1. The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. No man envieth the payment of a debt. Bacon. 2. That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise;
  • ESCAPEMENT
    1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by
  • DISPENSATION
    a system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers.
  • DISCHARGER
    One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
  • DISCHARGE
    1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
  • DEFRAYMENT
    Payment of charges.
  • QUITTANCE
    1. Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance. Omittance is no quittance. Shak. 2. Recompense; return; repayment. Shak.
  • ESCAPER
    One who escapes.
  • ESCAPE
    LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or cloak; hence, to slip out of one's 1. To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." Shak. 2. To avoid the notice of;
  • COMPENSATION
    1. The act or principle of compensating. Emerson. 2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration;
  • REPAYMENT
    1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
  • NONPAYMENT
    Neglect or failure to pay.
  • DELIBERATION
    1. The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection. Choosing the fairest way with a calm deliberation. W. Montagu. 2. Careful discussion and examination
  • RECOMPENSATION
    Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff. (more info) 1. Recompense.
  • ANCHOR ESCAPEMENT
    The common recoil escapement. A variety of the lever escapement with a wide impulse pin.
  • WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT
    A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 giving to a workman, except in certain cases of "serious and willful misconduct," a right against his
  • ACQUITTANCE
    1. The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability. 2. A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special
  • PREPAYMENT
    Payment in advance.
  • PREDELIBERATION
    Previous deliberation.

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