Quittance

Definition: Quittance

Quittance

Noun

1. A document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt.

2. Payment of a debt or obligation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quittance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonym: Quittance

Atonement

Noun: atonement, reparation; compromise, composition; compensation; quittance, quits; expiation, redemption, reclamation, conciliation, propitiation; indemnification, redress.

Forgiveness

Excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation; (acquittal).

Payment

Noun: payment, defrayment; discharge; acquittance, quittance; settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement.

Reward

Indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo.

Security

Receipt; acquittance, quittance; discharge, release.

Crosswords: Quittance

French (quietus, quittance, receipt, voucher).

Albanian

pagesë (carfare, charge, compensation, consideration, cost, fare, fee, honorarium, pay, payment, remuneration, salary, wage), kuitancë, dëftesë (acknowledgement, note, policy, receipt, voucher, warrant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخالصة, ‏سداد الدين (quietus, rebate, redemption, refund), ‏إبراء الدين. (various references)

Bulgarian 

реванш (return game, revenge), квитанция (acknowledgement, acquittance, receipt, ticket, voucher), отплата (meed, nemesis, payoff, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retaliation, retort, return, reward, wage). (various references)

Danish

toldkvittering (customs quittance, customs receipt, receipt). (various references)

Dutch

douanekwitantie (customs quittance, customs receipt). (various references)

Finnish

maksettu tullilasku (customs quittance, customs receipt). (various references)

French

quittance (quietus). (various references)

German

Vergeltung (repayment, requital, retaliation, retribution, vengeance), Quittung (acknowledgement, acquittance, docket, receipt). (various references)

Greek 

εξόφληση (acquitance, pay off, quietus), εξοφλητική απόδειξη (receipt). (various references)

Hebrew 

פטור (exempt, exemption, free, post free, release). (various references)

Hungarian

elismervény (check, receipt, voucher). (various references)

Italian

quietanza (acquittance, receipt), ricevuta (acknowledgement, acquittance, receipt). (various references)

Pig Latin

ittancequay

Portuguese

reparação (amends, atonement, mending, propitiation, recompense, recoupment, recovery, redress, refit, refitment, remedy, renewal, reparation, restitution, satisfaction), morte (death, decease, demise, doom, dying, exit, passing, quietus), libertação da vida (quietus), indenização (amends, atonement, breakage, damage, forfeit, recompense, recoupment, recovery, repair, reparation, restitution, smartmoney), compensação (amends, consideration, quid pro quo, ransom, recompense, redress, remuneration, reparation). (various references)

Romanian

compensaţie (amends, compensation, damage, drawback, indemnification, indemnity, offset, redress, remedy, requital, restitution, retrieval, set off), chitanţã (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, receipt, release, schedule, voucher), achitare (acquittal, acquittance, clearance, defrayal, disbursement, discharge, exoneration, liquidation, redemption, remittal, satisfaction). (various references)

Russian 

квитанция (claim check, invoice, receipt, sales slip, script), возмещение (atonement, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, offset, recoupment, recovery, redress, refund, reimbursement, reparation, repayment, solatium). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

priznanica (iou, receipt, warrant), isplata (allowance, disbursement, payment, payoff, payout). (various references)

Spanish

recibo (acknowledgement, acquittance, receipt), descargo (acquittal, blatancy, discharge, release), compensación (amends, clearance, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quid pro quo, recoupment, redress, reparation, requital, satisfaction, setoff, sop, trade off, trim). (various references)

Swedish

kvittering (equalization), kvittens, befrielse (acquittance, deliverance, dispensation, excuse, exemption, freedom, freeing, immunity, liberation, release, riddance). (various references)

Turkish

temize çıkma (acquittal, justification, whitewash), misilleme (answer, recompense, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retaliatory, retortion, retribution), makbuz (check, pay slip, receipt, voucher), karşılık (answer, as against, bargain, consideration, counter, counterbalance, counterpart, counterweigh, equivalent, offset, payment, payoff, provision, provisions, quid pro quo, reciprocation, recompense, remuneration, repayment, reply, requital, response, return, reward, riposte, wages), borcu kalmama, bedel (compensation, consideration, equivalent, forfeit, offset, pay, price, purchase money, quid pro quo, rate, requital, substitute, substitutional, wages, worth), alındı (acknowledgement, receipt), aklanma (exculpation). (various references)

Ukrainian

квитанція (acquittance, quietus, receipt, ticket), відшкодування (amends, consideration, indemnity, offset, recovery, redress, refund, reimbursement, repayment, restitution), звільнення (acquittal, acquittance, affranchisement, amendment, bounce, deliverance, disengagement, dismissal, dismission, ejection, emancipation, enfranchisement, enlargement, exemption, exoneration, freedom, immunity, liberation, push, quit, release, remission, remittal). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự báo thù (requital), sự báo đền (recompense), giấy chứng thu, biên lai sự đền bù. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "quittance": quittances. (additional references)

Words ending with "quittance": acquittance. (additional references)

Words containing "quittance": acquittances. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quittance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cuttance. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: equitant, tunicate.

-2 letters: antique, nictate, quantic, quinate, quintet, tetanic, tunicae.

-3 letters: acetin, acquit, attune, auntie, caique, cattie, centai, cinque, enatic, intact, nutate, quaint, quince, quinta, quinte, tauten, tenuti, tunica, unciae.

-4 letters: actin, acute, antic, attic, centu, cutie, cutin, enact, entia, quant, quate, quean, quiet, quint, quite, tacet, tacit, taint, taunt, tecta, tenia, tinct, tinea.

+1 letter: quittances.

+2 letters: acquittance.

+3 letters: acquittances.

+4 letters: quintuplicate.

+5 letters: quintuplicated, quintuplicates.