scrip

• Each unit of scrip you buy entitles you to one acre of the choicest land in North America. - 2014, James A. Michener, Texas: A Novel, page 369:
• 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. - 2014, Morris Bishop, A History of Cornell:
• 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. -...

• 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...
• 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. - 2014,...

Synonyms: chitty

1. Such a thing issued by a company as payment of wages.

   • 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. - 2012, Paul D. Escott,...
   • 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. - 2012, Robin Furth, Stephen King's The Dark Tower Concordance:
   • The new interior secretary also hastened to resolve the long simmering dispute over the payment of scrip to the dam workers. - 2014, Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure:

   Synonyms: chitty chit tommy

• Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around. - 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
• 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. — - 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like...

• 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. - 1899, Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories,...

Synonyms: script