Voucher
['vaʊtʃə] or ['vaʊtʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure.
(noun.) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement.
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Definition
(n.) One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.
(n.) A book, paper, or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind; also, any acquittance or receipt showing the payment of a debt; as, the merchant's books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts; notes, bonds, receipts, and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.
(n.) The act of calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.
(n.) The tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title. In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher or double vouchers.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of vouchers, foretells that patient toil will defeat idle scheming to arrest fortune from you. To sign one, denotes that you have the aid and confidence of those around you, despite the evil workings of enemies. To lose one, signifies that you will have a struggle for your rights with relatives.
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Examples
- Bring out your vouchers, and don't talk Jerusalem palaver. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The vouchers were produced, and for the next half-hour Mr Fledgeby concentrated his sublime attention on them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The vouchers have all been examined and passed. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- What those documents were I have not been informed, nor can I readily conceive, as all the vouchers existing there had been examined by Mr. Barclay. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There were periodical occasions when Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick went over the office accounts, and checked off the vouchers, and put all things straight. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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