voucher

From vouch +‎ -er. The verb is from the noun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaʊt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -aʊtʃə(ɹ)

voucher (plural vouchers)

1. A piece of paper or other token that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.

   Synonym: coupon

   a voucher for a free kettle

   This voucher entitles the bearer to a 20% discount on frozen goods.

   • 1973 December 8, “The Homophile Health Service”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 25, page 7:

     Today, clients who cannot afford the reasonable rates are able to join a work-voucher system in which they agree to work for an hour helping the HCHS staff for each hour of service received.

2. A receipt.
3. One who or that which vouches.
   • 1836, The New Sporting Magazine, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 11, page 227:

     To the fashionable world he cannot be a stranger […] and his having married a sister of the Duke of Leeds is a voucher for my assertion.

   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     She is my sister—my own father’s daughter. Well; why do I believe it? The other day I had not so much as heard the remotest rumor of her existence; and what has since occurred to change me? What so new and incontestable vouchers have I handled? None at all.

4. (advertising) A copy of a published advertisement sent by the agency to the client as proof of publication.
   • 2014, Nigel Linacre, Advertising for Account Holders (RLE Marketing), page 9:

     Most agencies also have a vouchers department. It is its responsibility to obtain a copy of every advertisement that appears in print. It supplies the accounts department with the relevant newspaper or magazine, which is affixed to the agency's invoice for the space.

5. (historical) A mechanical device used in shops for automatically registering the amount of money drawn.

voucher (third-person singular simple present vouchers, present participle vouchering, simple past and past participle vouchered)

1. (transitive) To establish the authenticity of; to vouch for.
2. (transitive) To provide a vouch for (an expenditure).
3. (transitive) To provide (a beneficiary) with a voucher.

• vouch

Unadapted borrowing from English voucher

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋou̯tʃer/, [ˈʋo̞u̯t̪ʃe̞r]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑu̯tʃer/, [ˈʋɑ̝u̯t̪ʃe̞r]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑu̯tʃər/, [ˈʋɑ̝u̯t̪ʃər] (approximating English pronunciation)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑu̯tʃə/, [ˈʋɑ̝u̯t̪ʃə] (approximating English pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -outʃer

voucher

1. voucher (coupon that can be exchanged for goods or services, typically used of prepaid services such as restaurants, accommodation or transportation)

   Synonyms: kuponki, etuseteli

   hotellivoucher ― hotel voucher

• “voucher”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

Borrowed from English voucher.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaw.t͡ʃer/
• Rhymes: -awtʃer
• Hyphenation: vou‧cher

voucher m (invariable)

1. voucher (piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount)

voucher

1. alternative form of vochier

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Unadapted borrowing from English voucher.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔw.t͡ʂɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɔwt͡ʂɛr
• Syllabification: vou‧cher

voucher m inan

1. coupon, voucher (piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services)

   Synonyms: bon, kupon, kwit, talon

• voucher in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English voucher.

voucher m (plural vouchers)

1. voucher, coupon (a piece of paper that entitles the holder to a discount)

   Synonyms: vale, cupão

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaut͡ʃeɾ/ [ˈbau̯.t͡ʃeɾ]
• Rhymes: -autʃeɾ
• Syllabification: vou‧cher

voucher m (plural vouchers or voucher)

1. voucher