Voucher

voucher
    n 1: someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a
         statement [syn: {voucher}, {verifier}]
    2: a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure
    3: a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as
       needed [syn: {coupon}, {voucher}]
    

Voucher \Vouch"er\, n.
   1. One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to
      anything.
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            Will his vouchers vouch him no more?  --Shak.
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            The great writers of that age stand up together as
            vouchers for one another's reputation. --Spectator.
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   2. 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.
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   3. (Law)
      (a) 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.
      (b) 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. --Blackstone.
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   4. A document attesting to a credit against certain defined
      expenditures; a recipt for prepayment; -- often used in
      pre-arranged travel plans, to provide evidence of
      pre-payment of the cost of lodging, transportation, or
      meals.
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VOUCHER, accounts. An account book in which are entered the acquittances, or 
warrants for the accountant's discharge. It also signifies any acquittance 
or receipt, which is evidence of payment, or of the debtor's being 
discharged. See 3 Halst. 299. 
    

VOUCHER, common recoveries. The voucher in common recoveries, is the person 
on whom the tenant to the praecipe calls to defend the title to the land, 
because he is supposed to have warranted the title to him at the time of the 
original purchase. 
     2. The person usually employed for this purpose is the cryer of the 
court, who is therefore called the common voucher. Vide Cruise, Dig. tit. 
36, c. 3, s. 1; 22 Vin. Ab. 26; Dane, Index, h.t.; and see Recovery. 
    

94 Moby Thesaurus words for "voucher":
      CD, IOU, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, acknowledgment,
      acquittance, advocacy, advocating, advocation, affidavit,
      attestant, attestation, attestator, attester, authority,
      authorization, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft,
      bill of exchange, bill of health, blank check, bystander,
      canceled check, certificate, certificate of character,
      certificate of deposit, certificate of proficiency, certification,
      certified check, character, character reference, check, checkbook,
      cheque, cojuror, commercial paper, compurgator, credential,
      debenture, demand bill, demand draft, deponent, deposition,
      diploma, discharge, draft, due bill, earwitness, exchequer bill,
      eyewitness, informant, informer, letter of credit,
      letter of introduction, money order, navicert,
      negotiable instrument, notarized statement, note, note of hand,
      paper, passerby, patronage, postal order, promissory note,
      quittance, receipt, receipt in full, recommend, recommendation,
      reference, release, sheepskin, sight bill, sight draft, spectator,
      swearer, sworn statement, testamur, testifier, testimonial, ticket,
      time bill, time draft, trade acceptance, treasury bill, visa, vise,
      warrant, warranty, witness