Other forms: vouchers
A voucher is the paper or code that gives you money off a purchase. A gift voucher, a discount voucher, redeem the voucher.
Coupon is the near equivalent and is commoner in America. Gift voucher is the British term for what America calls a gift card. Vouchers expire, which is where a substantial share of their value goes. In accounting, a voucher is a document supporting a payment. Note vouch, meaning to guarantee somebody's honesty — vouch for; and that voucher and vouch come from the same idea of calling something to witness.
1nounvoucherA paper or code giving money off a purchase.
“I used a voucher to get ten pounds off my shopping.”
voucher is a token of value.
Also accepted in games: coupon
Proto-Indo-European
*wekʷ- — to sound out; to speak
Latin
voco — to call, summon; to call upon, invoke; to designate, name; to bring or put (into a condition or state
Vulgar Latin
*vocico
Old French
vochier — to call, summon; to claim; to call upon, invoke; to denounce
Anglo-Norman
vochier
Middle English
vouchen — to call, summon; to provide; to make available, proffer; to affirm, declare formally
English
vouch
English, today
voucher
From vouch + er. The verb is from the noun. vouch The verb is derived from Middle English vouchen (“to call, summon; to provide; to make available, proffer; to affirm, declare formally”)fouche, voche, vouch, vouche, voutsche, vowch, woch, wouche, wowche, (Northern England) veuche, (Scotland) woche, from Anglo-Norman vochier, and Old French vochier (“to call, summon; to claim; to call upon, invoke; to denounce”)voker, vouchier, vougier, voukier, from Vulgar Latin vocico, derived from Latin voco (“to call, summon; to call upon, invoke; to designate, name; to bring or put (into a condition or state”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wekʷ- (“to sound out; to speak”). Verb sense 8.1 (“to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land”) in the form vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty is a Anglo-Norman - and Old French voucher a garant. The noun is derived from the verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA