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==English==
{{wikipedia}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/skɹɪp/}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-scrip.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪp|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|en|enm|scrippe}}, an [[aphetism]] of {{der|en|fro|escrepe|t=purse, alms-bag}}, a variant of {{m|fro|escharpe}}, from {{der|en|non|skreppa}}. Cognate with {{cog|da|skreppe|t=scrip}}, {{cog|no|skreppa|t=bag}}. {{doublet|en|scarf}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# A small medieval [[bag]] used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
#* '''1919,''' [[w:Ronald Firbank|Ronald Firbank]], ''[[w:Valmouth|Valmouth]]'', Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
#*: Depositing his '''scrip''' in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1964|author=w:Anthony Burgess|title=Nothing Like the Sun
|passage=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. —}}
# {{lb|en|archaic}} [[small change|Small change]].
#* '''1899,''' [[w:Edward Everett Hale|Edward Everett Hale]], ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1633/pg1633.html 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.

===Etymology 2===
Probably from a [[conflation]] of {{m|en|script}} and {{m|en|scrap}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# A [[scrap]] of [[paper]].
# A [[document]] signifying a power to obtain a specified acreage of public [[land]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014| title=Texas: A Novel |author=James A. Michener | page=369| passage=Each unit of '''scrip''' you buy entitles you to one acre of the choicest land in North America.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014| title=A History of Cornell|author=Morris Bishop | page=| passage=According to the act, the beneficiary states could not locate the land; they were obliged to sell '''scrip''' to individuals, entitling them to choose lands as yet unlocated. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2015| title=Metis and the Medicine Line|author=Michel Hogue | page=112| passage=For instance, Angelique Bottineau Ouellette had her name added to the list of half-breeds seeking '''scrip''' under the terms of the 1854 treaty between the U.S. government and the Lake Superior and Mississippi Chippewa.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2015| title=At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841–1900|author=Jennifer Ashton | page=| passage=Then in 1858 he sent John White, Webster's former neighbour, to Hokianga to supervise the investigation and survey of the '''scrip''' claims; that is, those areas of land for which '''scrip''' had been granted in the 1840s and which the Crown now claimed to own.}}
# {{senseid|en|voucher}} A [[voucher]] or token coin used in place of [[legal tender]] for payment of [[wages]].
#: {{syn|en|chit|id=voucher}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2012| title=Many Excellent People|author=Paul D. Escott | page=232| passage=A grievance that was both economic and psychological was the practice, common in some mills, especially prior to 1890, of paying in '''scrip''' that had to be redeemed for goods at a company store.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2012| title=Stephen King's The Dark Tower Concordance|author=Robin Furth | page=| passage=He even forces Tim to give up his lessons at the WIDOW SMACK'S COTTAGE, so that he can earn a little in '''scrip''' from the TREE SAWMILL.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014| title=Hoover Dam: An American Adventure|author=Joseph E. Stevens | page=| passage=The new interior secretary also hastened to resolve the long simmering dispute over the payment of '''scrip''' to the dam workers.}}
# A substitute for [[legal tender]] that is produced by a local government or a private organization.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2013| title=Panic Scrip of 1893, 1907 and 1914|author=Neil Shafer; Tom Sheehan | page=337| passage=His actions provide a blueprint for crisis control that merits attention today. All these fiscal achievements removed most of the need for local '''scrip''', accounting for the very few issues found in this section of the catalog. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2013| title=The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: The Babysitting Recession|author=w:Tim Harford | page=| passage=You look at your forty pieces of '''scrip''', and you think: 'Hmm. That's only ten hours of prime-time babysitting. That's not much. I was thinking of taking my partner out for a meal and a movie this weekend, but that would use up five or six hours. What if next week we got invited to some important social event at the last minute, and we didn't have enough '''scrip''' left to get emergency babysitting? On reflection, we'd better not go out this weekend. Instead, let's first put in a couple of evenings of babysitting to build up our reserves of '''scrip'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014| title=Kansas Paper Money: An Illustrated History, 1854–1935 |author=Steve Whitfield | page=69| passage=The issue and availability of true factional notes by the United States government, such as 10-cent and 25-cent notes, etc., did not eliminate the need for locally issued small '''scrip''' until the spring of 1863.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014| title=Wiley GAAP 2015|author=Joanne M. Flood | page=568| passage=Dividends may be made in the form of cash, property, or '''scrip'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2020| title=Going Private |author=Arthur M. Borden; Joel A. Yunis | page=!3-6| passage=Many states permit a corporation to issue '''scrip''' certificates in lieu of fractional shares, with holders being entitled to combine their certificates—"to round them up"—in amounts aggregating a full share and to exchange them for a full share certificate.}}

===Etymology 3===
Abbreviation of {{m|en||[[subscription]] [[receipt]]}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A [[share]] [[certificate]].

===Etymology 4===
Abbreviation of {{m|en|prescription}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|informal}} A [[medical]] [[prescription]].
#: {{syn|en|script}}

===References===
* {{R:OneLook}}
* {{R:Century 1911}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=ciprs|Crips|Crisp|crips|crisp}}

{{C|en|Bags}}

==Dutch==

===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|nl|en|scrip}}, clipping of {{m|en||[[subscription]] [[receipt]]}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nl|/skrɪp/}}
* {{audio|nl|Nl-scrip.ogg}}
* {{hyphenation|nl|scrip}}
* {{rhymes|nl|ɪp}}

===Noun===
{{nl-noun|m|-s|-}}

# {{l|en|scrip}} {{gloss|share certificate}}